Autumn In Cornwall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCB DDDEBBBE FFFDBBBD CCCFFFFF DDDBFFFB CCCGEEEG

The year lies fallen and fadedA
On cliffs by clouds invadedA
With tongues of storms upbraidedB
With wrath of waves bedinnedB
And inland wild with warningC
As in deaf ears or scorningC
The clarion even and morningC
Rings of the south west windB
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The wild bents wane and witherD
In blasts whose breath bows hitherD
Their grey grown heads and thitherD
Unblest of rain or sunE
The pale fierce heavens are crowdedB
With shapes like dreams becloudedB
As though the old year enshroudedB
Lay long ere life were doneE
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Full charged with oldworld wondersF
From dusk Tintagel thundersF
A note that smites and sundersF
The hard frore fields of airD
A trumpet stormier soundedB
Than once from lists reboundedB
When strong men sense confoundedB
Fell thick in tourney thereD
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From scarce a duskier dwellingC
Such notes of wail rose wellingC
Through the outer darkness tellingC
In the awful singer's earsF
What souls the darkness coversF
What love lost souls of loversF
Whose cry still hangs and hoversF
In each man's born that hearsF
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For there by Hector's brotherD
And yet some thousand otherD
He that had grief to motherD
Passed pale from Dante's sightB
With one fast linked as fearlessF
Perchance there only tearlessF
Iseult and Tristram peerlessF
And perfect queen and knightB
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A shrill winged sound comes flyingC
North as of wild souls cryingC
The cry of things undyingC
That know what life must beG
Or as the old year's heart strickenE
Too sore for hope to quickenE
By thoughts like thorns that thickenE
Broke breaking with the seaG

Algernon Charles Swinburne



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