Autumn In The Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD BBBBEFBB GGHHIIJJ BBKKLLMM FFBBNNOO| When the frosty kiss of Autumn in the dark | A |
| Makes its mark | A |
| On the flowers and the misty morning grieves | B |
| Over fallen leaves | B |
| Then my olden garden where the golden soil | C |
| Through the toil | C |
| Of a hundred years is mellow rich and deep | D |
| Whispers in its sleep | D |
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| 'Mid the crumpled beds of marigold and phlox | B |
| Where the box | B |
| Borders with its glossy green the ancient walks | B |
| There's a voice that talks | B |
| Of the human hopes that bloomed and withered here | E |
| Year by year | F |
| Dreams of joy that brightened all the labouring hours | B |
| Fading as the flowers | B |
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| Yet the whispered story does not deepen grief | G |
| But relief | G |
| For the loneliness of sorrow seems to flow | H |
| From the Long Ago | H |
| When I think of other lives that learned like mine | I |
| To resign | I |
| And remember that the sadness of the fall | J |
| Comes alike to all | J |
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| What regrets what longings for the lost were theirs | B |
| And what prayers | B |
| For the silent strength that nerves us to endure | K |
| Things we cannot cure | K |
| Pacing up and down the garden where they paced | L |
| I have traced | L |
| All their well worn paths of patience till I find | M |
| Comfort in my mind | M |
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| Faint and far away their ancient griefs appear | F |
| Yet how near | F |
| Is the tender voice the careworn kindly face | B |
| Of the human race | B |
| Let us walk together in the garden dearest heart | N |
| Not apart | N |
| They who know the sorrows other lives have known | O |
| Never walk alone | O |
Henry Van Dyke
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