Original Poem Reprinted Online Here: "Mild is the Parting Year" by Walter Savage Landor More Information about the Poet: Walter Savage Landor Two quatrains with adjusted lines also with an abab rhyme scheme. When I first look at poem, this goes through my mind before the content because style informs the content here -- and here there's a sense of something out of place, a sort of melancholy. Mild is the parting year, and sweet The color of the falling spray; Life passes on more rudely fleet, And balmless is its closing day. Here's the thing with this stanza -- the semi-colon connects the sentence as a direct correlation of time. When the parting year happens there's a very image based connection -- sweet, the color of falling spray which is comparable to life passing away. The key is how to interpret balmless as the lack of smell. The after smell...
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