At Michaelmas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCBC DBDB BEBE FGFG HCHC IBIB JBJB KLKL MCMC NENE OPOP QEQE RCRC SESE TCTC UCUC CTCT VCWC XEXE BYBE ZA2B2C2 CTCT KD2KD2 TCTC TCTC E2PE2P F2G2F2G2

About the time of Michael's feastA
And all his angelsB
There comes a word to man and beastA
By dark evangelsB
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Then hearing what the wild things sayB
To one anotherC
Those creatures first born of our grayB
Mysterious MotherC
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The greatness of the world's unrestD
Steals through our pulsesB
Our own life takes a meaning guessedD
From the torn dulse'sB
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The draft and set of deep sea tidesB
Swirling and flowingE
Bears every filmy flake that ridesB
Grandly unknowingE
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The sunlight listens thin and fineF
The crickets whistleG
And floating midges fill the shineF
Like a seeding thistleG
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The hawkbit flies his golden flagH
From rocky pastureC
Bidding his legions never lagH
Through morning's vastureC
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Soon we shall see the red vines rampI
Through forest bordersB
And Indian summer breaking campI
To silent ordersB
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The glossy chestnuts swell and burstJ
Their prickly housesB
Agog at news which reached them firstJ
In sap's carousesB
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The long noons turn the ribstons redK
The pippins yellowL
The wild duck from his reedy bedK
Summons his fellowL
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The robins keep the underbrushM
Songless and waryC
As though they feared some frostier hushM
Might bid them tarryC
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Perhaps in the great North they heardN
Of silence fallingE
Upon the world without a wordN
White and appallingE
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The ash tree and the lady fernO
In russet frondageP
Proclaim 'tis time for our returnO
To vagabondageP
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All summer idle have we keptQ
But on a morningE
Where the blue hazy mountains sleptQ
A scarlet warningE
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Disturbs our day dream with a startR
A leaf turns overC
And every earthling is at heartR
Once more a roverC
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All winter we shall toil and plodS
Eating and drinkingE
But now's the little time when GodS
Sets folk to thinkingE
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Consider says the quiet sunT
How far I wanderC
Yet when had I not time on oneT
More flower to squanderC
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Consider says the restless tideU
My endless laborC
Yet when was I content besideU
My nearest neighborC
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So wander lust to wander lureC
As seed to seasonT
Must rise and wend possessed and sureC
In sweet unreasonT
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For doorstone and repose are goodV
And kind is dutyC
But joy is in the solitudeW
With shy heart beautyC
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And Truth is one whose ways are meekX
Beyond foretellingE
And far his journey who would seekX
Her lowly dwellingE
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She leads him by a thousand heightsB
Lonelily faringY
With sunrise and with eagle flightsB
To mate his daringE
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For her he fronts a vaster fogZ
Than Leif of yore didA2
Voyaging for continents no logB2
Has yet recordedC2
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He travels by a polar starC
Now bright now hiddenT
For a free land though rest be farC
And roads forbiddenT
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Till on a day with sweet coarse breadK
And wine she stays himD2
Then in a cool and narrow bedK
To slumber lays himD2
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So we are hers And fellows mineT
Of fin and featherC
By shady wood and shadowy brineT
When comes the weatherC
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For migrants to be moving onT
By lost indentureC
You flock and gather and are goneT
The old adventureC
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I too have my unwritten dateE2
My gypsy presageP
And on the brink of fall I waitE2
The darkling messageP
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The sign from prying eyes concealedF2
Is yet how flagrantG2
Here's ragged robin in the fieldF2
A simple vagrantG2

Bliss Carman And Richard Hovey



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