[Jim Moonan]

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It is a serenade to sorrow. As for the geography and climate of the poem being drawn from where he was living in England at the time, I think it's just as likely he was drawing from his memories in New England, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The weather in both those spots is dreary in late November, and when it's wet, all the more sodden it gets.

My recollection of the English Novembers mirrors the mood of this poem perfectly. The Novembers I remember in Richmond, Surrey as I walked daily up the hill that borders the park would also be a fine inspiration for the poem. So the inspirational setting for the poem could have come from either New England or England.
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