Leaves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCC DEDEFE CGCGCG FHFHGH GHGHGH| The leaves are falling one and one | A |
| Each like a life to me | B |
| As over soonly in the sun | A |
| They spiral goldenly | C |
| So airily and warily | C |
| They falter free | C |
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| The leaves are falling two and two | D |
| Beneath a baleful sky | E |
| So silently the sward they strew | D |
| Reluctantly they die | E |
| Rich crimson leaves and no one grieves | F |
| There doom but I | E |
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| The leaves are falling three and three | C |
| Beneath the mothlike moon | G |
| They flutter downward silverly | C |
| In muted rigadoon | G |
| And russet dry remote they lie | C |
| From feathered tune | G |
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| The leaves are lying numberless | F |
| Disconsolately dead | H |
| Where lucent was their sylvan dress | F |
| And lightsome was their tread | H |
| They rot below the bitter snow | G |
| Uncomforted | H |
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| A leaf's a life and one by one | G |
| They drift each darkling day | H |
| Rare friends who lusted in the sun | G |
| Are frailing fast away | H |
| How sadly soon will mourn the moon | G |
| My dark decay | H |
Robert William Service
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