Mnemosyne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BAB A CAC A DAD A EAF A GAG HAH A| It 's autumn in the country I remember | A |
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| How warm a wind blew here about the ways | B |
| And shadows on the hillside lay to slumber | A |
| During the long sun sweetened summer days | B |
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| It's cold abroad the country I remember | A |
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| The swallows veering skimmed the golden grain | C |
| At midday with a wing aslant and limber | A |
| And yellow cattle browsed upon the plain | C |
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| It 's empty down the country I remember | A |
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| I had a sister lovely in my sight | D |
| Her hair was dark her eyes were very sombre | A |
| We sang together in the woods at night | D |
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| It 's lonely in the country I remember | A |
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| The babble of our children fills my ears | E |
| And on our hearth I stare the perished ember | A |
| To flames that show all starry thro' my tears | F |
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| It 's dark about the country I remember | A |
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| There are the mountains where I lived The path | G |
| Is slushed with cattle tracks and fallen timber | A |
| The stumps are twisted by the tempests' wrath | G |
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| But that I knew these places are my own | H |
| I 'd ask how came such wretchedness to cumber | A |
| The earth and I to people it alone | H |
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| It rains across the country I remember | A |
Trumbull Stickney
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