An Autumn Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD EFEFEF G| Are the leaves falling round about | A |
| The churchyard on the hill | B |
| Is the glow of autumn going out | A |
| Is that the winter chill | B |
| And yet through winter's noise no doubt | A |
| The graves are very still | B |
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| Are the woods empty voiceless bare | C |
| On sodden leaves do you tread | D |
| Is nothing left of all those fair | C |
| Is the whole summer fled | D |
| Well so from this unwholesome air | C |
| Have gone away these dead | D |
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| The seasons pierce me like a leaf | E |
| I feel the autumn blow | F |
| And tremble between nature's grief | E |
| And the silent death below | F |
| O Summer thou art very brief | E |
| Where do these exiles go | F |
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| Gilesgate Durham | G |
George Macdonald
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