The Pity Of The Leaves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDBBE FGHFGH| Vengeful across the cold November moors | A |
| Loud with ancestral shame there came the bleak | B |
| Sad wind that shrieked and answered with a shriek | B |
| Reverberant through lonely corridors | C |
| The old man heard it and he heard perforce | D |
| Words out of lips that were no more to speak | B |
| Words of the past that shook the old man's cheek | B |
| Like dead remembered footsteps on old floors | E |
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| And then there were the leaves that plagued him so | F |
| The brown thin leaves that on the stones outside | G |
| Skipped with a freezing whisper Now and then | H |
| They stopped and stayed there just to let him know | F |
| How dead they were but if the old man cried | G |
| They fluttered off like withered souls of men | H |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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