In October Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCC CDCDEFEF GCGCCFCD CHCIDJDJ| Along the waste a great way off the pines | A |
| Like tall slim priests of storm stand up and bar | B |
| The low long strip of dolorous red that lines | A |
| The under west where wet winds moan afar | B |
| The cornfields all are brown and brown the meadows | C |
| With the blown leaves' wind heaped traceries | C |
| And the brown thistle stems that cast no shadows | C |
| And bear no bloom for bees | C |
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| As slowly earthward leaf by red leaf slips | C |
| The sad leaves rustle in chill misery | D |
| A soft strange inner sound of pain crazed lips | C |
| That move and murmur incoherently | D |
| As if all leaves that yet have breath were sighing | E |
| With pale hushed throats for death is at the door | F |
| So many low soft masses for the dying | E |
| Sweet leaves that live no more | F |
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| Here I will sit upon this naked stone | G |
| Draw my coat closer with my numbed hands | C |
| And hear the ferns sigh and the wet woods moan | G |
| And send my heart out to the ashen lands | C |
| And I will ask myself what golden madness | C |
| What balmed breaths of dreamland spicery | F |
| What visions of soft laughter and light sadness | C |
| Were sweet last month to me | D |
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| The dry dead leaves flit by with thin weird tunes | C |
| Like failing murmurs of some conquered creed | H |
| Graven in mystic markings with strange runes | C |
| That none but stars and biting winds may read | I |
| Here I will wait a little I am weary | D |
| Not torn with pain of any lurid hue | J |
| But only still and very gray and dreary | D |
| Sweet sombre lands like you | J |
Archibald Lampman
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