The Waning Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL| A Sense of something that is sad and strange | A |
| Of something that is felt as death is felt | B |
| As shadows phantoms in a haunted grange | A |
| Around me seems to melt | B |
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| It rises so it seems from the decay | C |
| Of the dim woods from withered leaves and weeds | D |
| And dead flowers hanging by the woodland way | C |
| Sad hoary heads of seeds | D |
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| And from the cricket's song so feeble now | E |
| 'T is like a sound heard in the heart a call | F |
| Dreamier than dreams and from the shaken bough | E |
| From which the acorns fall | F |
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| From scents and sounds it rises sadly slow | G |
| This presence that hath neither face nor form | H |
| That in the woods sits like demented woe | G |
| Whispering of wreck and storm | H |
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| A presence wrought of melancholy grief | I |
| And dreams that die that in the streaming night | J |
| I shall behold like some fantastic leaf | I |
| Beat at my window's light | J |
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| That I shall hear outside my storm lashed door | K |
| Moan like the wind in some rain tortured tree | L |
| Or 'round my roof and down my chimney roar | K |
| All the wild night to me | L |
Madison Julius Cawein
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