Faded Leaves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCE FGFG HEHE IHIJ KLKL A M NOPP MMQQ A R STST BUBU BVBV VWVW O F XYYYX OZZZO RFFFR UOOOU A2YYYA2 O S JJUU B2B2OO UUC2C2 JJUU

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THE RIVERB
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Still glides the stream slow drops the boatC
Under the rustling poplars' shadeD
Silent the swans beside us floatC
None speaks none heeds ah turn thy headE
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Let those arch eyes now softly shineF
That mocking mouth grow sweetly blandG
Ah let them rest those eyes on mineF
On mine let rest that lovely handG
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My pent up tears oppress my brainH
My heart is swoln with love unsaidE
Ah let me weep and tell my painH
And on thy shoulder rest my headE
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Before I die before the soulI
Which now is mine must re attainH
Immunity from my controlI
And wander round the world againJ
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Before this teas'd o'erlabour'd heartK
For ever leaves its vain employL
Dead to its deep habitual smartK
And dead to hopes of future joyL
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IIA
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TOO LATEM
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Each on his own strict line we moveN
And some find death ere they find loveO
So far apart their lives are thrownP
From the twin soul that halves their ownP
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And sometimes by still harder fateM
The lovers meet but meet too lateM
Thy heart is mine True true ah trueQ
Then love thy hand Ah no adieuQ
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IIIA
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SEPARATIONR
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Stop Not to me at this bitter departingS
Speak of the sure consolations of TimeT
Fresh be the wound still renew'd be its smartingS
So but thy image endure in its primeT
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But if the stedfast commandment of NatureB
Wills that remembrance should always decayU
If the lov'd form and the deep cherish'd featureB
Must when unseen from the soul fade awayU
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Me let no half effac'd memories cumberB
Fled fled at once be all vestige of theeV
Deep be the darkness and still be the slumberB
Dead be the Past and its phantoms to meV
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Then when we meet and thy look strays towards meV
Scanning my face and the changes wrought thereW
Who let me say is this Stranger regards meV
With the grey eyes and the lovely brown hairW
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IVO
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ON THE RHINEF
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Vain is the effort to forgetX
Some day I shall be cold I knowY
As is the eternal moon lit snowY
Of the high Alps to which I goY
But ah not yet not yetX
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Vain is the agony of griefO
'Tis true indeed an iron knotZ
Ties straitly up from mine thy lotZ
And were it snapt thou lov'st me notZ
But is despair reliefO
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Awhile let me with thought have doneR
And as this brimm'd unwrinkled RhineF
And that far purple mountain lineF
Lie sweetly in the look divineF
Of the slow sinking sunR
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So let me lie and calm as theyU
Let beam upon my inward viewO
Those eyes of deep soft lucent hueO
Eyes too expressive to be blueO
Too lovely to be greyU
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Ah Quiet all things feel thy balmA2
Those blue hills too this river's flowY
Were restless once but long agoY
Tam'd is their turbulent youthful glowY
Their joy is in their calmA2
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VO
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LONGINGS
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Come to me in my dreams and thenJ
By day I shall be well againJ
For so the night will more than payU
The hopeless longing of the dayU
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Come as thou cam'st a thousand timesB2
A messenger from radiant climesB2
And smile on thy new world and beO
As kind to others as to meO
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Or as thou never cam'st in soothU
Come now and let me dream it truthU
And part my hair and kiss my browC2
And say My love why sufferest thouC2
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Come to me in my dreams and thenJ
By day I shall be well againJ
For so the night will more than payU
The hopeless longing of the dayU

Matthew Arnold



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