In The City Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KAKA| The autumn morning sweetly calls to me | A |
| And autumn days and nights in patience wait | B |
| I answer not because I am not free | A |
| Although I chose my fate | B |
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| The cold gray mist that stains the city walls | C |
| Stands silver columned where the river glides | D |
| Or slow dividing on the valley falls | C |
| Where one I love abides | D |
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| The wind that trifles round my city door | E |
| Or whirls before me all the city's dust | F |
| By the sea borrows its triumphant roar | E |
| And lends its savage gust | F |
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| Or shrieking rushes where the sombre pines | G |
| Hold solemn converse in the ancient vale | H |
| And while 't is dying in their dark confines | G |
| Babbles their mystic tale | H |
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| Could I but climb a roof above my own | I |
| And greet grave Autumn as he walks the earth | J |
| With secret signal that would make me known | I |
| I should not feel my dearth | J |
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| Then silver mist or loud triumphant wind | K |
| Might come in sad disguise and misery | A |
| I would but ponder in my secret mind | K |
| How Autumn answers me | A |
Elizabeth Stoddard
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