The Fading Flower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GAGA HIHI JDJD IKIL MNMN DODO PQPQ RSRS TITU O| There is a chillness in the air | A |
| A coldness in the smile of day | B |
| And e'en the sunbeam's crimson glare | A |
| Seems shaded with a tinge of gray | B |
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| Weary of journeys to and fro | C |
| The sun low creeps adown the sky | D |
| And on the shivering earth below | C |
| The long cold shadows grimly lie | D |
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| But there will fall a deeper shade | E |
| More chilling than the Autumn's breath | F |
| There is a flower that yet must fade | E |
| And yield its sweetness up to death | F |
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| She sits upon the window seat | G |
| Musing in mournful silence there | A |
| While on her brow the sunbeams meet | G |
| And dally with her golden hair | A |
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| She gazes on the sea of light | H |
| That overflows the western skies | I |
| Till her great soul seems plumed for flight | H |
| From out the window of her eyes | I |
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| Hopes unfulfilled have vexed her breast | J |
| Sad smiles have checked the rising sigh | D |
| Until her weary heart confessed | J |
| Reluctantly that she must die | D |
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| And she has thought of all the ties | I |
| The golden ties that bind her here | K |
| Of all that she has learned to prize | I |
| Of all that she has counted dear | L |
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| The joys of body heart and mind | M |
| The pleasures that she loves so well | N |
| The grasp of friendship warm and kind | M |
| And love's delicious hallowed spell | N |
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| And she has wept that she must lie | D |
| Beneath the snow wreaths drifted deep | O |
| With no fond mother standing nigh | D |
| To watch her in her silent sleep | O |
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| And she has prayed if it might be | P |
| Within the reach of human skill | Q |
| And not averse to Heaven that she | P |
| Might live a little longer still | Q |
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| But earthly hope is gone and now | R |
| Comes in its place a brighter beam | S |
| Leaving upon her snowy brow | R |
| The impress of a heavenly dream | S |
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| That she when her frail body yields | T |
| And fades away to mortal eyes | I |
| Shall burst through Heaven's eternal fields | T |
| And bloom again in Paradise | U |
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| nbsp | O |
William Mckendree Carleton
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