The Spring And The Fall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABACC AADAEE FFGAEE| In the spring of the year in the spring of the year | A |
| I walked the road beside my dear | A |
| The trees were black where the bark was wet | B |
| I see them yet in the spring of the year | A |
| He broke me a bough of the blossoming peach | C |
| That was out of the way and hard to reach | C |
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| In the fall of the year in the fall of the year | A |
| I walked the road beside my dear | A |
| The rooks went up with a raucous trill | D |
| I hear them still in the fall of the year | A |
| He laughed at all I dared to praise | E |
| And broke my heart in little ways | E |
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| Year be springing or year be falling | F |
| The bark will drip and the birds be calling | F |
| There's much that's fine to see and hear | G |
| In the spring of a year in the fall of a year | A |
| 'Tis not love's going hurt my days | E |
| But that it went in little ways | E |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Gary Roseman: This piece is so beautiful, sentimental, and sad. It fairly rings with a word structure which only Millay can compose. I wanted to use this poem in memory of my wife's recent death; however, I (sadly) had to alter slightly the lines which stated 'tis not love's going that hurt my days/ but that it went in little ways. Our love never faded and went in little ways.
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