When The Year Grows Old Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGHG AIJI KELE AAMA ABAB| I cannot but remember | A |
| When the year grows old | B |
| October November | A |
| How she disliked the cold | B |
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| She used to watch the swallows | C |
| Go down across the sky | D |
| And turn from the window | E |
| With a little sharp sigh | D |
| - | |
| And often when the brown leaves | F |
| Were brittle on the ground | G |
| And the wind in the chimney | H |
| Made a melancholy sound | G |
| - | |
| She had a look about her | A |
| That I wish I could forget | I |
| The look of a scared thing | J |
| Sitting in a net | I |
| - | |
| Oh beautiful at nightfall | K |
| The soft spitting snow | E |
| And beautiful the bare boughs | L |
| Rubbing to and fro | E |
| - | |
| But the roaring of the fire | A |
| And the warmth of fur | A |
| And the boiling of the kettle | M |
| Were beautiful to her | A |
| - | |
| I cannot but remember | A |
| When the year grows old | B |
| October November | A |
| How she disliked the cold | B |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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