The Fallen Leaves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFAFGEGEA BHIHJKLKAEAEA BME NIKIOPBPQ BCRCSTQTUVWV| I | A |
| - | |
| WE stand among the fallen leaves | B |
| Young children at our play | C |
| And laugh to see the yellow things | D |
| Go rustling on their way | C |
| Right merrily we hunt them down | E |
| The autumn winds and we | F |
| Nor pause to gaze where snow drifts lie | A |
| Or sunbeams gild the tree | F |
| With dancing feet we leap along | G |
| Where wither'd boughs are strown | E |
| Nor past nor future checks our song | G |
| The present is our own | E |
| II | A |
| - | |
| We stand among the fallen leaves | B |
| In youth's enchanted spring | H |
| When Hope who wearies at the last | I |
| First spreads her eagle wing | H |
| We tread with steps of conscious strength | J |
| Beneath the leafless trees | K |
| And the colour kindles on our cheek | L |
| As blows the winter breeze | K |
| While gazing towards the cold grey sky | A |
| Clouded with snow and rain | E |
| We wish the old year all past by | A |
| And the young spring come again | E |
| III | A |
| - | |
| We stand among the fallen leaves | B |
| In manhood's haughty prime | M |
| When first our pausing hearts begin | E |
| To love 'the olden time ' | - |
| And as we gaze we sigh to think | N |
| How many a year hath pass'd | I |
| Since 'neath those cold and faded trees | K |
| Our footsteps wander'd last | I |
| And old companions now perchance | O |
| Estranged forgot or dead | P |
| Come round us as those autumn leaves | B |
| Are crush'd beneath our tread | P |
| IV | Q |
| - | |
| We stand among the fallen leaves | B |
| In our own autumn day | C |
| And tott'ring on with feeble steps | R |
| Pursue our cheerless way | C |
| We look not back too long ago | S |
| Hath all we loved been lost | T |
| Nor forward for we may not live | Q |
| To see our new hope cross'd | T |
| But on we go the sun's faint beam | U |
| A feeble warmth imparts | V |
| Childhood without its joy returns | W |
| The present fills our hearts | V |
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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