Immortal Autumn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB BC DEFFE GHHG IJJI KLHK| I speak this poem now with grave and level voice | A |
| In praise of autumn of the far horn winding fall | B |
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| I praise the flower barren fields the clouds the tall | B |
| Unanswering branches where the wind makes sullen noise | C |
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| I praise the fall it is the human season | D |
| Now | E |
| No more the foreign sun does meddle at our earth | F |
| Enforce the green and bring the fallow land to birth | F |
| Nor winter yet weigh all with silence the pine bough | E |
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| But now in autumn with the black and outcast crows | G |
| Share we the spacious world the whispering year is gone | H |
| There is more room to live now the once secret dawn | H |
| Comes late by daylight and the dark unguarded goes | G |
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| Between the mutinous brave burning of the leaves | I |
| And winter s covering of our hearts with his deep snow | J |
| We are alone there are no evening birds we know | J |
| The naked moon the tame stars circle at our eaves | I |
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| It is the human season On this sterile air | K |
| Do words outcarry breath the sound goes on and on | L |
| I hear a dead man s cry from autumn long since gone | H |
| I cry to you beyond upon this bitter air | K |
Archibald Macleish
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