A Threnody Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDC A EFGGH A IJKKJ L MNIIN| I | A |
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| The rainy smell of a ferny dell | B |
| Whose shadow no sunray flaws | C |
| When Autumn sits in the wayside weeds | D |
| Telling her beads | D |
| Of haws | C |
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| II | A |
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| The phantom mist that is moonbeam kissed | E |
| On hills where the trees are thinned | F |
| When Autumn leans at the oak root's scarp | G |
| Playing a harp | G |
| Of wind | H |
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| III | A |
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| The crickets' chirr 'neath brier and burr | I |
| By leaf strewn pools and streams | J |
| When Autumn stands 'mid the dropping nuts | K |
| With the book she shuts | K |
| Of dreams | J |
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| IV | L |
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| The gray alas of the days that pass | M |
| And the hope that says adieu | N |
| A parting sorrow a shriveled flower | I |
| And one ghost's hour | I |
| With you | N |
Madison Julius Cawein
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