In November (2) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGHIJKKLLMM NN HHOKKOKACCPPMMHG QQRRKKCCNNSSTTJJ| With loitering step and quiet eye | A |
| Beneath the low November sky | A |
| I wandered in the woods and found | B |
| A clearing where the broken ground | B |
| Was scattered with black stumps and briers | C |
| And the old wreck of forest fires | C |
| It was a bleak and sandy spot | D |
| And all about the vacant plot | D |
| Was peopled and inhabited | E |
| By scores of mulleins long since dead | F |
| A silent and forsaken brood | G |
| In that mute opening of the wood | H |
| So shrivelled and so thin they were | I |
| So gray so haggard and austere | J |
| Not plants at all they seemed to me | K |
| But rather some spare company | K |
| Of hermit folk who long ago | L |
| Wandering in bodies to and fro | L |
| Had chanced upon this lonely way | M |
| And rested thus till death one day | M |
| Surprised them at their compline prayer | N |
| And left them standing lifeless there | N |
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| There was no sound about the wood | H |
| Save the wind's secret stir I stood | H |
| Among the mullein stalks as still | O |
| As if myself had grown to be | K |
| One of their sombre company | K |
| A body without wish or will | O |
| And as I stood quite suddenly | K |
| Down from a furrow in the sky | A |
| The sun shone out a little space | C |
| Across that silent sober place | C |
| Over the sand heaps and brown sod | P |
| The mulleins and dead goldenrod | P |
| And passed beyond the thickets gray | M |
| And lit the fallen leaves that lay | M |
| Level and deep within the wood | H |
| A rustling yellow multitude | G |
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| And all around me the thin light | Q |
| So sere so melancholy bright | Q |
| Fell like the half reflected gleam | R |
| Or shadow of some former dream | R |
| A moment's golden reverie | K |
| Poured out on every plant and tree | K |
| A semblance of weird joy or less | C |
| A sort of spectral happiness | C |
| And I too standing idly there | N |
| With muffled hands in the chill air | N |
| Felt the warm glow about my feet | S |
| And shuddering betwixt cold and heat | S |
| Drew my thoughts closer like a cloak | T |
| While something in my blood awoke | T |
| A nameless and unnatural cheer | J |
| A pleasure secret and austere | J |
Archibald Lampman
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