The Fall Of The Leaf Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE FFGG HHIJ| THE LAZY mist hangs from the brow of the hill | A |
| Concealing the course of the dark winding rill | A |
| How languid the scenes late so sprightly appear | B |
| As Autumn to Winter resigns the pale year | B |
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| The forests are leafless the meadows are brown | C |
| And all the gay foppery of summer is flown | D |
| Apart let me wander apart let me muse | E |
| How quick Time is flying how keen Fate pursues | E |
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| How long I have liv'd but how much liv'd in vain | F |
| How little of life's scanty span may remain | F |
| What aspects old Time in his progress has worn | G |
| What ties cruel Fate in my bosom has torn | G |
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| How foolish or worse till our summit is gain'd | H |
| And downward how weaken'd how darken'd how pain'd | H |
| Life is not worth having with all it can give | I |
| For something beyond it poor man sure must live | J |
Robert Burns
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