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Song

T. S. Eliot 1888 (St. Louis, Missouri, United States) – 1965 (Kensington)

When we came home across the hill
    No leaves were fallen from the trees;
    The gentle fingers of the breeze
Had torn no quivering cobweb down.

The hedgerow bloomed with flowers still,
    No withered petals lay beneath;
    But the wild roses in your wreath
Were faded, and the leaves were brown.
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Submitted by halel on July 13, 2020

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABBC ADDC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 294
Words 51
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
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T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot OM was an American-British poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and went on to settle, work and marry there. more…

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