If I Walk in Autumn's Even
The speaker considers walking among autumn's dead leaves and looking at spring's sky, sensing that something once present is missing. They ask where winter's frost and snow and summer's clouds have gone.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley · Genre: Lyric Poetry, Seasonal Poetry · 60 words
First lines
If I walk in Autumn's even / While the dead leaves pass, / If I look on Spring's soft heaven,- / Something is not there which was / Winter's wondrous frost and snow, / Summer's clouds, where are they now?
Genres
- Lyric Poetry — Six rhyming lines express a speaker's personal sense that something once present is now absent.
- Seasonal Poetry — The speaker contrasts autumn leaves and spring skies with winter's frost and snow and summer's clouds.
Tags
seasonal change · autumn leaves · spring skies · frost · snow · clouds
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric Poetry, Seasonal Poetry
- Length: 60 words
- Structure: 1 section, 1 paragraphs
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