At Last Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFCF DBGB HIAJ AKLK AMNM OBED OKAK| Down down like a pale leaf dropping | A |
| Under an autumn sky | B |
| My love dropped into my bosom | C |
| Quietly quietly | D |
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| There was not a ray of sunshine | E |
| And not a sound in the air | F |
| As she trembled into my bosom | C |
| My love no longer fair | F |
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| All year round in her beauty | D |
| She dwelt on the tree top high | B |
| She danced in the summer breezes | G |
| She laughed to the summer sky | B |
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| I lay so low in the grass dews | H |
| She sat so high above | I |
| She never wist of my longing | A |
| She never dreamed of my life | J |
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| But when winds lay bare her dwelling | A |
| And her heart could find no rest | K |
| I called and she fluttered downward | L |
| Into my faithful breast | K |
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| I know that my love is fading | A |
| I know I cannot fold | M |
| Her fragrance from the frost blight | N |
| Her beauty from the mould | M |
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| But a little little longer | O |
| She shall contented lie | B |
| And wither away in the sunshine | E |
| Silently silently | D |
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| Come when thou wilt grim Winter | O |
| My year is crowned and blest | K |
| If when my love is dying | A |
| She die upon my breast | K |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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