A Girl's Autumn Reverie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE ABFBGBGB ABFBAGFG ABHBFBFBWe plucked a red rose you and I | A |
All in the summer weather | B |
Sweet its perfume and rare its bloom | C |
Enjoyed by us together | B |
The rose is dead the summer fled | D |
And bleak winds are complaining | E |
We dwell apart but in each heart | F |
We find the thorn remaining | E |
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We sipped a sweet wine you and I | A |
All in the summer weather | B |
The beaded draught we lightly quaffed | F |
And filled the glass together | B |
Together we watched its rosy glow | G |
And saw its bubbles glitter | B |
Apart alone we only know | G |
The lees are very bitter | B |
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We walked in sunshine you and I | A |
All in the summer weather | B |
The very night seemed noonday bright | F |
When we two were together | B |
I wonder why with our good by | A |
O'er hill and vale and meadow | G |
There fell such shade our paths seemed laid | F |
Forevermore in shadow | G |
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We dreamed a sweet dream you and I | A |
All in the summer weather | B |
Where rose and wine and warm sunshine | H |
Were mingled in together | B |
We dreamed that June was with us yet | F |
We woke to find December | B |
We dreamed that we two could forget | F |
We woke but to remember | B |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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