Autumn In Cornwall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCB DDDEBBBE FFFDBBBD CCCFFFFF DDDBFFFB CCCGEEEGThe year lies fallen and faded | A |
On cliffs by clouds invaded | A |
With tongues of storms upbraided | B |
With wrath of waves bedinned | B |
And inland wild with warning | C |
As in deaf ears or scorning | C |
The clarion even and morning | C |
Rings of the south west wind | B |
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The wild bents wane and wither | D |
In blasts whose breath bows hither | D |
Their grey grown heads and thither | D |
Unblest of rain or sun | E |
The pale fierce heavens are crowded | B |
With shapes like dreams beclouded | B |
As though the old year enshrouded | B |
Lay long ere life were done | E |
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Full charged with oldworld wonders | F |
From dusk Tintagel thunders | F |
A note that smites and sunders | F |
The hard frore fields of air | D |
A trumpet stormier sounded | B |
Than once from lists rebounded | B |
When strong men sense confounded | B |
Fell thick in tourney there | D |
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From scarce a duskier dwelling | C |
Such notes of wail rose welling | C |
Through the outer darkness telling | C |
In the awful singer's ears | F |
What souls the darkness covers | F |
What love lost souls of lovers | F |
Whose cry still hangs and hovers | F |
In each man's born that hears | F |
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For there by Hector's brother | D |
And yet some thousand other | D |
He that had grief to mother | D |
Passed pale from Dante's sight | B |
With one fast linked as fearless | F |
Perchance there only tearless | F |
Iseult and Tristram peerless | F |
And perfect queen and knight | B |
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A shrill winged sound comes flying | C |
North as of wild souls crying | C |
The cry of things undying | C |
That know what life must be | G |
Or as the old year's heart stricken | E |
Too sore for hope to quicken | E |
By thoughts like thorns that thicken | E |
Broke breaking with the sea | G |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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