A Dirge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDEC FGGF HIJKLET Summer go | A |
To other gardens here we have no need of her | B |
She smiles and beckons but we take no heed of her | B |
Who love not Summer but bare boughs and snow | A |
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Set the snow free | C |
To choke the insolent triumph of the year | D |
With birds that sing as though he still were here | E |
And flowers that blow as if he still could see | C |
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Let the rose die | F |
What ailed the rose to blow she is not dear to us | G |
Nor all the summer pageant that draws near to us | G |
Let it be over soon let it go by | F |
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Let winter come | H |
With the wild mourning of the wind tossed boughs | I |
To drown the stillness of the empty house | J |
To which no more the little feet come home | K |
Edith Nesbit
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