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| I | A |
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| THE RIVER | B |
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| Still glides the stream slow drops the boat | C |
| Under the rustling poplars' shade | D |
| Silent the swans beside us float | C |
| None speaks none heeds ah turn thy head | E |
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| Let those arch eyes now softly shine | F |
| That mocking mouth grow sweetly bland | G |
| Ah let them rest those eyes on mine | F |
| On mine let rest that lovely hand | G |
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| My pent up tears oppress my brain | H |
| My heart is swoln with love unsaid | E |
| Ah let me weep and tell my pain | H |
| And on thy shoulder rest my head | E |
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| Before I die before the soul | I |
| Which now is mine must re attain | H |
| Immunity from my control | I |
| And wander round the world again | J |
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| Before this teas'd o'erlabour'd heart | K |
| For ever leaves its vain employ | L |
| Dead to its deep habitual smart | K |
| And dead to hopes of future joy | L |
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| II | A |
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| TOO LATE | M |
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| Each on his own strict line we move | N |
| And some find death ere they find love | O |
| So far apart their lives are thrown | P |
| From the twin soul that halves their own | P |
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| And sometimes by still harder fate | M |
| The lovers meet but meet too late | M |
| Thy heart is mine True true ah true | Q |
| Then love thy hand Ah no adieu | Q |
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| III | A |
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| SEPARATION | R |
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| Stop Not to me at this bitter departing | S |
| Speak of the sure consolations of Time | T |
| Fresh be the wound still renew'd be its smarting | S |
| So but thy image endure in its prime | T |
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| But if the stedfast commandment of Nature | B |
| Wills that remembrance should always decay | U |
| If the lov'd form and the deep cherish'd feature | B |
| Must when unseen from the soul fade away | U |
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| Me let no half effac'd memories cumber | B |
| Fled fled at once be all vestige of thee | V |
| Deep be the darkness and still be the slumber | B |
| Dead be the Past and its phantoms to me | V |
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| Then when we meet and thy look strays towards me | V |
| Scanning my face and the changes wrought there | W |
| Who let me say is this Stranger regards me | V |
| With the grey eyes and the lovely brown hair | W |
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| IV | O |
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| ON THE RHINE | F |
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| Vain is the effort to forget | X |
| Some day I shall be cold I know | Y |
| As is the eternal moon lit snow | Y |
| Of the high Alps to which I go | Y |
| But ah not yet not yet | X |
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| Vain is the agony of grief | O |
| 'Tis true indeed an iron knot | Z |
| Ties straitly up from mine thy lot | Z |
| And were it snapt thou lov'st me not | Z |
| But is despair relief | O |
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| Awhile let me with thought have done | R |
| And as this brimm'd unwrinkled Rhine | F |
| And that far purple mountain line | F |
| Lie sweetly in the look divine | F |
| Of the slow sinking sun | R |
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| So let me lie and calm as they | U |
| Let beam upon my inward view | O |
| Those eyes of deep soft lucent hue | O |
| Eyes too expressive to be blue | O |
| Too lovely to be grey | U |
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| Ah Quiet all things feel thy balm | A2 |
| Those blue hills too this river's flow | Y |
| Were restless once but long ago | Y |
| Tam'd is their turbulent youthful glow | Y |
| Their joy is in their calm | A2 |
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| V | O |
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| LONGING | S |
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| Come to me in my dreams and then | J |
| By day I shall be well again | J |
| For so the night will more than pay | U |
| The hopeless longing of the day | U |
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| Come as thou cam'st a thousand times | B2 |
| A messenger from radiant climes | B2 |
| And smile on thy new world and be | O |
| As kind to others as to me | O |
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| Or as thou never cam'st in sooth | U |
| Come now and let me dream it truth | U |
| And part my hair and kiss my brow | C2 |
| And say My love why sufferest thou | C2 |
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| Come to me in my dreams and then | J |
| By day I shall be well again | J |
| For so the night will more than pay | U |
| The hopeless longing of the day | U |
Matthew Arnold
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