A Year And A Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EFGFHF IJKJDJ ELMNOL HPQPGR SFTFUF VJEWCJSlow days have passed that make a year | A |
Slow hours that make a day | B |
Since I could take my first dear love | C |
And kiss him the old way | B |
Yet the green leaves touch me on the cheek | D |
Dear Christ this month of May | B |
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I lie among the tall green grass | E |
That bends above my head | F |
And covers up my wasted face | G |
And folds me in its bed | F |
Tenderly and lovingly | H |
Like grass above the dead | F |
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Dim phantoms of an unknown ill | I |
Float through my tired brain | J |
The unformed visions of my life | K |
Pass by in ghostly train | J |
Some pause to touch me on the cheek | D |
Some scatter tears like rain | J |
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A shadow falls along the grass | E |
And lingers at my feet | L |
A new face lies between my hands | M |
Dear Christ if I could weep | N |
Tears to shut out the summer leaves | O |
When this new face I greet | L |
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Still it is but the memory | H |
Of something I have seen | P |
In the dreamy summer weather | Q |
When the green leaves came between | P |
The shadow of my dear love s face | G |
So far and strange it seems | R |
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The river ever running down | S |
Between its grassy bed | F |
The voices of a thousand birds | T |
That clang above my head | F |
Shall bring to me a sadder dream | U |
When this sad dream is dead | F |
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A silence falls upon my heart | V |
And hushes all its pain | J |
I stretch my hands in the long grass | E |
And fall to sleep again | W |
There to lie empty of all love | C |
Like beaten corn of grain | J |
Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal
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