September Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFD GHGHIJJI KKKKKLLK MKMKNOON KDKDPQQP RSRSTUUT MVMVWKKW XYXYMKKM MZMZKKKK

Now hath the summer reached her golden closeA
And lost amid her corn fields bright of soulB
Scarcely perceives from her divine reposeC
How near how swift the inevitable goalB
Still still she smiles though from her careless feetD
The bounty and the fruitful strength are goneE
And through the soft long wondering days goes onF
The silent sere decadence sad and sweetD
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The kingbird and the pensive thrush are fledG
Children of light too fearful of the gloomH
The sun falls low the secret word is saidG
The mouldering woods grow silent as the tombH
Even the fields have lost their sovereign graceI
The cone flower and the marguerite and no moreJ
Across the river's shadow haunted floorJ
The paths of skimming swallows interlaceI
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Already in the outland wildernessK
The forests echo with unwonted dinsK
In clamorous gangs the gathering woodmen pressK
Northward and the stern winter's toil beginsK
Around the long low shanties whose rough linesK
Break the sealed dreams of many an unnamed lakeL
Already in the frost clear morns awakeL
The crash and thunder of the falling pinesK
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Where the tilled earth with all its fields set freeM
Naked and yellow from the harvest liesK
By many a loft and busy granaryM
The hum and tumult of the thrashers riseK
There the tanned farmers labor without slackN
Till twilight deepens round the spouting millO
Feeding the loosened sheaves or with fierce willO
Pitching waist deep upon the dusty stackN
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Still a brief while ere the old year quite passK
Our wandering steps and wistful eyes shall greetD
The leaf the water the beloved grassK
Still from these haunts and this accustomed seatD
I see the wood wrapt city swept with lightP
The blue long shadowed distance and betweenQ
The dotted farm lands with their parcelled greenQ
The dark pine forest and the watchful heightP
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I see the broad rough meadow stretched awayR
Into the crystal sunshine wastes of sodS
Acres of withered vervain purple grayR
Branches of aster groves of goldenrodS
And yonder toward the sunlit summit strewnT
With shadowy boulders crowned and swathed with weedU
Stand ranks of silken thistles blown to seedU
Long silver fleeces shining like the noonT
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In far off russet corn fields where the dryM
Gray shocks stand peaked and withering half concealedV
In the rough earth the orange pumpkins lieM
Full ribbed and in the windless pasture fieldV
The sleek red horses o'er the sun warmed groundW
Stand pensively about in companiesK
While all around them from the motionless treesK
The long clean shadows sleep without a soundW
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Under cool elm trees floats the distant streamX
Moveless as air and o'er the vast warm earthY
The fathomless daylight seems to stand and dreamX
A liquid cool elixir all its girthY
Bound with faint haze a frail transparencyM
Whose lucid purple barely veils and fillsK
The utmost valleys and the thin last hillsK
Nor mars one whit their perfect clarityM
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Thus without grief the golden days go byM
So soft we scarcely notice how they wendZ
And like a smile half happy or a sighM
The summer passes to her quiet endZ
And soon too soon around the cumbered eavesK
Sly frosts shall take the creepers by surpriseK
And through the wind touched reddening woods shall riseK
October with the rain of ruined leavesK

Archibald Lampman



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