On Anne Allen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDBEEB FFBGGB HHBIIB JJBKKB LLBMMB| The wind blew keenly from the Western sea | A |
| And drove the dead leaves slanting from the tree | A |
| Vanity of vanities the Preacher saith | B |
| Heaping them up before her Father's door | C |
| When I saw her whom I shall see no more | C |
| We cannot bribe thee Death | B |
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| She went abroad the falling leaves among | D |
| She saw the merry season fade and sung | D |
| Vanity of vanities the Preacher saith | B |
| Freely she wandered in the leafless wood | E |
| And said that all was fresh and fair and good | E |
| She knew thee not O Death | B |
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| She bound her shining hair across her brow | F |
| She went into the garden fading now | F |
| Vanity of vanities the Preacher saith | B |
| And if one sighed to think that it was sere | G |
| She smiled to think that it would bloom next year | G |
| She feared thee not O Death | B |
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| Blooming she came back to the cheerful room | H |
| With all the fairer flowers yet in bloom | H |
| Vanity of vanities the Preacher saith | B |
| A fragrant knot for each of us she tied | I |
| And placed the fairest at her Father's side | I |
| She cannot charm thee Death | B |
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| Her pleasant smile spread sunshine upon all | J |
| We heard her sweet clear laughter in the Hall | J |
| Vanity of vanities the Preacher saith | B |
| We heard her sometimes after evening prayer | K |
| As she went singing softly up the stair | K |
| No voice can charm thee Death | B |
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| Where is the pleasant smile the laughter kind | L |
| That made sweet music of the winter wind | L |
| Vanity of vanities the Preacher saith | B |
| Idly they gaze upon her empty place | M |
| Her kiss hath faded from her Father's face | M |
| She is with thee O Death | B |
Edward Fitzgerald
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