Love's Gleaning Tide Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DDDC EFFG ABBG| Draw not away thy hands my love | A |
| With wind alone the branches move | B |
| And though the leaves be scant above | A |
| The Autumn shall not shame us | C |
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| Say Let the world wax cold and drear | D |
| What is the worst of all the year | D |
| But life and what can hurt us dear | D |
| Or death and who shall blame us | C |
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| Ah when the summer comes again | E |
| How shall we say we sowed in vain | F |
| The root was joy the stem was pain | F |
| The ear a nameless blending | G |
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| The root is dead and gone my love | A |
| The stem's a rod our truth to prove | B |
| The ear is stored for nought to move | B |
| Till heaven and earth have ending | G |
William Morris
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