September Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFD GHGHIJJI KKKKKLLK MKMKNOON KDKDPQQP RSRSTUUT MVMVWKKW XYXYMKKM MZMZKKKKNow hath the summer reached her golden close | A |
And lost amid her corn fields bright of soul | B |
Scarcely perceives from her divine repose | C |
How near how swift the inevitable goal | B |
Still still she smiles though from her careless feet | D |
The bounty and the fruitful strength are gone | E |
And through the soft long wondering days goes on | F |
The silent sere decadence sad and sweet | D |
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The kingbird and the pensive thrush are fled | G |
Children of light too fearful of the gloom | H |
The sun falls low the secret word is said | G |
The mouldering woods grow silent as the tomb | H |
Even the fields have lost their sovereign grace | I |
The cone flower and the marguerite and no more | J |
Across the river's shadow haunted floor | J |
The paths of skimming swallows interlace | I |
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Already in the outland wilderness | K |
The forests echo with unwonted dins | K |
In clamorous gangs the gathering woodmen press | K |
Northward and the stern winter's toil begins | K |
Around the long low shanties whose rough lines | K |
Break the sealed dreams of many an unnamed lake | L |
Already in the frost clear morns awake | L |
The crash and thunder of the falling pines | K |
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Where the tilled earth with all its fields set free | M |
Naked and yellow from the harvest lies | K |
By many a loft and busy granary | M |
The hum and tumult of the thrashers rise | K |
There the tanned farmers labor without slack | N |
Till twilight deepens round the spouting mill | O |
Feeding the loosened sheaves or with fierce will | O |
Pitching waist deep upon the dusty stack | N |
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Still a brief while ere the old year quite pass | K |
Our wandering steps and wistful eyes shall greet | D |
The leaf the water the beloved grass | K |
Still from these haunts and this accustomed seat | D |
I see the wood wrapt city swept with light | P |
The blue long shadowed distance and between | Q |
The dotted farm lands with their parcelled green | Q |
The dark pine forest and the watchful height | P |
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I see the broad rough meadow stretched away | R |
Into the crystal sunshine wastes of sod | S |
Acres of withered vervain purple gray | R |
Branches of aster groves of goldenrod | S |
And yonder toward the sunlit summit strewn | T |
With shadowy boulders crowned and swathed with weed | U |
Stand ranks of silken thistles blown to seed | U |
Long silver fleeces shining like the noon | T |
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In far off russet corn fields where the dry | M |
Gray shocks stand peaked and withering half concealed | V |
In the rough earth the orange pumpkins lie | M |
Full ribbed and in the windless pasture field | V |
The sleek red horses o'er the sun warmed ground | W |
Stand pensively about in companies | K |
While all around them from the motionless trees | K |
The long clean shadows sleep without a sound | W |
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Under cool elm trees floats the distant stream | X |
Moveless as air and o'er the vast warm earth | Y |
The fathomless daylight seems to stand and dream | X |
A liquid cool elixir all its girth | Y |
Bound with faint haze a frail transparency | M |
Whose lucid purple barely veils and fills | K |
The utmost valleys and the thin last hills | K |
Nor mars one whit their perfect clarity | M |
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Thus without grief the golden days go by | M |
So soft we scarcely notice how they wend | Z |
And like a smile half happy or a sigh | M |
The summer passes to her quiet end | Z |
And soon too soon around the cumbered eaves | K |
Sly frosts shall take the creepers by surprise | K |
And through the wind touched reddening woods shall rise | K |
October with the rain of ruined leaves | K |
Archibald Lampman
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