The First Night Of Fall And Falling Rain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKCLMKNBBBB DLJOPBQBRB| The common rain had come again | A |
| Slanting and colorless pale and anonymous | B |
| Fainting falling in the first evening | C |
| Of the first perception of the actual fall | D |
| The long and late light had slowly gathered up | E |
| A sooty wood of clouded sky dim and distant more and | F |
| more | G |
| Until at dusk the very sense of selfhood waned | H |
| A weakening nothing halted diminished or denied or set | I |
| aside | J |
| Neither tea nor after an hour whiskey | K |
| Ice and then a pleasant glow a burning | C |
| And the first leaping wood fire | L |
| Since a cold night in May too long ago to be more than | M |
| Merely a cold and vivid memory | K |
| Staring empty and without thought | N |
| Beyond the rising mists of the emotion of causeless | B |
| sadness | B |
| How suddenly all consciousness leaped in spontaneous | B |
| gladness | B |
| Knowing without thinking how the falling rain outside all | D |
| over | L |
| In slow sustained consistent vibration all over outside | J |
| Tapping window streaking roof | O |
| running down runnel and drain | P |
| Waking a sense once more of all that lived outside of us | B |
| Beyond emotion for beyond the swollen | Q |
| distorted shadows and lights | B |
| Of the toy town and the vanity fair | R |
| of waking consciousness | B |
Delmore Schwartz
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