A Year And A Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EFGFHF IJKJDJ ELMNOL HPQPGR SFTFUF VJEWCJ

Slow days have passed that make a yearA
Slow hours that make a dayB
Since I could take my first dear loveC
And kiss him the old wayB
Yet the green leaves touch me on the cheekD
Dear Christ this month of MayB
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I lie among the tall green grassE
That bends above my headF
And covers up my wasted faceG
And folds me in its bedF
Tenderly and lovinglyH
Like grass above the deadF
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Dim phantoms of an unknown illI
Float through my tired brainJ
The unformed visions of my lifeK
Pass by in ghostly trainJ
Some pause to touch me on the cheekD
Some scatter tears like rainJ
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A shadow falls along the grassE
And lingers at my feetL
A new face lies between my handsM
Dear Christ if I could weepN
Tears to shut out the summer leavesO
When this new face I greetL
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Still it is but the memoryH
Of something I have seenP
In the dreamy summer weatherQ
When the green leaves came betweenP
The shadow of my dear love s faceG
So far and strange it seemsR
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The river ever running downS
Between its grassy bedF
The voices of a thousand birdsT
That clang above my headF
Shall bring to me a sadder dreamU
When this sad dream is deadF
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A silence falls upon my heartV
And hushes all its painJ
I stretch my hands in the long grassE
And fall to sleep againW
There to lie empty of all loveC
Like beaten corn of grainJ

Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal



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