The Recessional Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA CCDC EEBE FFGF HHEH IIJI KKEK LLIL MMIM| Now along the solemn heights | A |
| Fade the Autumn's altar lights | A |
| Down the great earth's glimmering chancel | B |
| Glide the days and nights | A |
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| Little kindred of the grass | C |
| Like a shadow in a glass | C |
| Falls the dark and falls the stillness | D |
| We must rise and pass | C |
| - | |
| We must rise and follow wending | E |
| Where the nights and days have ending | E |
| Pass in order pale and slow | B |
| Unto sleep extending | E |
| - | |
| Little brothers of the clod | F |
| Soul of fire and seed of sod | F |
| We must fare into the silence | G |
| At the knees of God | F |
| - | |
| Little comrades of the sky | H |
| Wing to wing we wander by | H |
| Going going going going | E |
| Softly as a sigh | H |
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| Hark the moving shapes confer | I |
| Globe of dew and gossamer | I |
| Fading and ephemeral spirits | J |
| In the dusk astir | I |
| - | |
| Moth and blossom blade and bee | K |
| Worlds must go as well as we | K |
| In the long procession joining | E |
| Mount and star and sea | K |
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| Toward the shadowy brink we climb | L |
| Where the round year rolls sublime | L |
| Rolls and drops and falls forever | I |
| In the vast of time | L |
| - | |
| Like a plummet plunging deep | M |
| Past the utmost reach of sleep | M |
| Till remembrance has no longer | I |
| Care to laugh or weep | M |
Charles G. D. Roberts
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