Autumnal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAB CDDCD EFFGF HBBHB| Pale amber sunlight falls across | A |
| The reddening October trees | B |
| That hardly sway before a breeze | B |
| As soft as summer summer's loss | A |
| Seems little dear on days like these | B |
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| Let misty autumn be our part | C |
| The twilight of the year is sweet | D |
| Where shadow and the darkness meet | D |
| Our love a twilight of the heart | C |
| Eludes a little time's deceit | D |
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| Are we not better and at home | E |
| In dreamful Autumn we who deem | F |
| No harvest joy is worth a dream | F |
| A little while and night shall come | G |
| A little while then let us dream | F |
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| Beyond the pearled horizons lie | H |
| Winter and night awaiting these | B |
| We garner this poor hour of ease | B |
| Until love turn from us and die | H |
| Beneath the drear November trees | B |
Ernest Christopher Dowson
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