The Upper Birch-leaves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFEF GHGIJKCLHKCL| Warm yellowy green | A |
| In the blue serene | A |
| How they skip and sway | B |
| On this autumn day | B |
| They cannot know | C |
| What has happened below | C |
| That their boughs down there | D |
| Are already quite bare | D |
| That their own will be | E |
| When a week has passed | F |
| For they jig as in glee | E |
| To this very last | F |
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| But no there lies | G |
| At times in their tune | H |
| A note that cries | G |
| What at first I fear | I |
| I did not hear | J |
| O we remember | K |
| At each wind's hollo | C |
| Though life holds yet | L |
| We go hence soon | H |
| For 'tis November | K |
| But that you follow | C |
| You may forget | L |
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