A Dirge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDEC FGGF HIJK| LET 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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