Transition Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH| A little while to walk with thee dear child | A |
| To lean on thee my weak and weary head | B |
| Then evening comes the winter sky is wild | A |
| The leafless trees are black the leaves long dead | B |
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| A little while to hold thee and to stand | C |
| By harvest fields of bending golden corn | D |
| Then the predestined silence and thine hand | C |
| Lost in the night long and weary and forlorn | D |
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| A little while to love thee scarcely time | E |
| To love thee well enough then time to part | F |
| To fare through wintry fields alone and climb | E |
| The frozen hills not knowing where thou art | F |
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| Short summer time and then my heart's desire | G |
| The winter and the darkness one by one | H |
| The roses fall the pale roses expire | I |
| Beneath the slow decadence of the sun | H |
Ernest Christopher Dowson
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