Gray Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH| A soaking sedge | A |
| A faded field a leafless hill and hedge | A |
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| Low clouds and rain | B |
| And loneliness and languor worse than pain | B |
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| Mottled with moss | C |
| Each gravestone holds to heaven a patient Cross | C |
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| Shrill streaks of light | D |
| Two sycamores' clean limbed funereal white | D |
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| And low between | E |
| The sombre cedar and the ivy green | E |
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| Upon the stone | F |
| Of each in turn who called this land his own | F |
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| The gray rain beats | G |
| And wraps the wet world in its flying sheets | G |
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| And at my eaves | H |
| A slow wind ghostlike comes and grieves and grieves | H |
John Charles Mcneill
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