Autumn Flowers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNIN OPFP QRSR ITAT| O crimson tined flowers | A |
| That live when others die | B |
| What thoughtless hand unloving | C |
| Could ever pass you by | B |
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| You are the last bright blossoms | D |
| The summer's after glow | E |
| When all her early children | F |
| Have faded long ago | E |
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| Sweet golden rod and xenia | G |
| And crimson marigold | H |
| What dreams of autumn splendor | I |
| Your velvet leaves unfold | H |
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| Long long ago the violets | J |
| Have closed their sweet blue eyes | K |
| And lain with pale dead faces | L |
| Beneath the summer skies | K |
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| And on their graves you blossom | M |
| With leaves of gold and red | N |
| And yet how soon forever | I |
| Your beauty will be fled | N |
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| The frost will come to kill you | O |
| The snows will wrap you round | P |
| And you will sleep forgotten | F |
| Upon the frozen ground | P |
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| Your tints are like the beauty | Q |
| The sunlight leaves behind | R |
| And deep and full of sadness | S |
| The thoughts you bring to mind | R |
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| Dear memories of the summer | I |
| Sweet tokens of the past | T |
| You are the fairest flowers | A |
| Because you are the last | T |
Fannie Isabelle Sherrick
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