The Autumn Wind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDA AEAEDDA FGFGDDA HIHIDDA JKJKDDA LMLMDD| I | A |
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| HUSH moaning autumn wind be still be still | B |
| Thy grieving voice forbiddeth hearts to rest | C |
| We hear thee sweeping down the lonely hill | B |
| And mournful thoughts crowd o'er the human breast | C |
| Why wilt thou haunt us with thy voice unkind | D |
| Sadd'ning the earth Hush moaning autumn wind | D |
| II | A |
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| Toss not the branching trees so wildly high | A |
| Filling the forest with thy dreary sound | E |
| Without thy aid the hues of summer die | A |
| And the sear leaves fall scatter'd to the ground | E |
| Thou dost but hasten needlessly unkind | D |
| The winter's task thou moaning autumn wind | D |
| III | A |
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| Sweep not thro' Ocean's caves with hollow roar | F |
| Driving our fair ships to some rock bound strand | G |
| While the vex'd sea foams wrathful to the shore | F |
| The seaman's wife looks shuddering from the land | G |
| And widow'd hearts for many a year shall find | D |
| Death in thy voice thou moaning autumn wind | D |
| IV | A |
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| Round our calm dwellings when our hearths are gay | H |
| Roam not oh howling spirit of Despair | I |
| As tho' thou wert a creature seeking prey | H |
| And where the land look'd richest found it there | I |
| We have enough of memories unkind | D |
| Without thy voice thou moaning autumn wind | D |
| V | A |
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| Thee the sad mourner lists and turns to weep | J |
| In the blank silence of her lonely home | K |
| The sick man hears and starts from broken sleep | J |
| And the night wanderer sighs compell'd to roam | K |
| While the poor shiver for their huts unkind | D |
| Bar thee not out thou searching autumn wind | D |
| VI | A |
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| Back to the barren hill and lonely glen | L |
| Here let the wandering of thy echoes cease | M |
| Sadly thou soundest to the hearts of men | L |
| Hush thy wild voice and let the earth have peace | M |
| Or if no chain thy restless will can bind | D |
| Sweep thro' the desert moaning autumn wind | D |
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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