The Child Of The Islands - Autumn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCCDCDDA EFEFFGHGGA IJIJJKJKKL MLNLLBLBBL OPOPPQPQQL LOLOOOOOOL RSRMMTMTTL ULULLVLVVL LLLLLWXWWL YZYZZWZWWL A2WA2WWLWLLL B2WB2WWLWLLL C2WC2WWWWWWL LD2LE2D2WD2WWL F2WF2WWLWLLL WWWWWWWWWL LWLWWG2WG2H2L LI2LI2I2WI2WWL LJ2I | A |
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BROWN Autumn cometh with her liberal hand | B |
Binding the Harvest in a thousand sheaves | C |
A yellow glory brightens o'er the land | B |
Shines on thatched corners and low cottage eaves | C |
And gilds with cheerful light the fading leaves | C |
Beautiful even here on hill and dale | D |
More lovely yet where Scotland's soil receives | C |
The varied rays her wooded mountains hail | D |
With hues to which our faint and soberer tints are pale | D |
II | A |
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For there the Scarlet Rowan seems to mock | E |
The red sea coral berries leaves and all | F |
Light swinging from the moist green shining rock | E |
Which beds the foaming torrent's turbid fall | F |
And there the purple cedar grandly tall | F |
Lifts its crowned head and sun illumined stem | G |
And larch soft drooping like a maiden's pall | H |
Bends o'er the lake that seems a sapphire gem | G |
Dropt from the hoary hill's gigantic diadem | G |
III | A |
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And far and wide the glorious heather blooms | I |
Its regal mantle o'er the mountains spread | J |
Wooing the bee with honey sweet perfumes | I |
By many a viewless wild flower richly shed | J |
Up springing 'neath the glad exulting tread | J |
Of eager climbers light of heart and limb | K |
Or yielding soft a fresh elastic bed | J |
When evening shadows gather faint and dim | K |
And sun forsaken crags grow old and gaunt and grim | K |
IV | L |
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Oh Land first seen when Life lay all unknown | M |
Like an unvisited country o'er the wave | L |
Which now my travelled heart looks back upon | N |
Marking each sunny path each gloomy cave | L |
With here a memory and there a grave | L |
Land of romance and beauty noble land | B |
Of Bruce and Wallace land where vainly brave | L |
Ill fated Stuart made his final stand | B |
Ere yet the shivered sword fell hopeless from his hand | B |
V | L |
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I love you I remember you though years | O |
Have fleeted o'er the hills my spirit knew | P |
Whose wild uncultured heights the plough forbears | O |
Whose broomy hollows glisten in the dew | P |
Still shines the calm light with as rich a hue | P |
Along the wooded valleys stretched below | Q |
Still gleams my lone lake's unforgotten blue | P |
Oh land although unseen how well I know | Q |
The glory of your face in this autumnal glow | Q |
VI | L |
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I know your deep glens where the eagles cry | L |
I know the freshness of your mountain breeze | O |
Your brooklets gurgling downward ceaselessly | L |
The singing of your birds among the trees | O |
Mingling confused a thousand melodies | O |
I know the lone rest of your birchen bowers | O |
Where the soft murmur of the working bees | O |
Goes droning past with scent of heather flowers | O |
And lulls the heart to dream even in its waking hours | O |
VII | L |
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I know the grey stones in the rocky glen | R |
Where the wild red deer gather one by one | S |
And listen startled to the tread of men | R |
Which the betraying breeze hath backward blown | M |
So with such dark majestic eyes where shone | M |
Less terror than amazement nobly came | T |
Peruvia's Incas when through lands unknown | M |
The cruel conqueror with the blood stained name | T |
Swept with pursuing sword and desolating flame | T |
VIII | L |
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So taken so pursued so tracked to death | U |
The wild free monarch of the hills shall be | L |
By cunning men who creep with stifled breath | U |
O'er crag and heather tuft on bended knee | L |
Down crouching with most thievish treachery | L |
Climbing again with limbs o'erspent and tired | V |
Watching for that their failing eyes scarce see | L |
The moment long delayed and long desired | V |
When the quick rifle shot in triumph shall be fired | V |
IX | L |
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Look look what portent riseth on the sky | L |
The glory of his great betraying horns | L |
Wide spreading many branched and nobly high | L |
Such spoil the chieftain's hall with pride adorns | L |
Oh Forest King the fair succeeding morns | L |
That brighten o'er those hills shall miss your crest | W |
From their sun lighted peaks He's hit but scorn | X |
To die without a struggle sore distrest | W |
He flies while daylight fades receding in the West | W |
X | L |
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Ben Doran glows like iron in the forge | Y |
Then to cold purple turns then gloomy grey | Z |
And down the ravine pass and mountain gorge | Y |
Scarce glimmers now the faintest light of day | Z |
The moonbeams on the trembling waters play | Z |
Though still the sky is flecked with bars of gold | W |
And there the noble creature stands at bay | Z |
His strained limbs shivering with a sense of cold | W |
While weakness films the eye that shone so wildly bold | W |
XI | L |
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His fair majestic head bows low at length | A2 |
And leaping at his torn and bleeding side | W |
The fierce dogs pin him down with grappling strength | A2 |
While eager men come on with rapid stride | W |
And cheer exulting in his baffled pride | W |
Now from its sheath drawn forth the gleaming knife | L |
Stabs his broad throat the gaping wound yawns wide | W |
One gurgling groan the last deep sigh of life | L |
Wells with his gushing blood and closed is all the strife | L |
XII | L |
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'Tis done The hunted animal Despair | B2 |
That hoped and feared no future state is past | W |
O'er the stiff nostril blows the evening air | B2 |
O'er the glazed eye real darkness gathers fast | W |
Into a car the heavy corse is cast | W |
And homeward the belated hunter hies | L |
Eager to boast of his success at last | W |
And shew the beauty of his antlered prize | L |
To Her he loves the best the maid with gentle eyes | L |
XIII | L |
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And she whose tender heart would beat and shrink | C2 |
At the loud yelping of a punished hound | W |
With rosy lips and playful smile shall drink | C2 |
The Highland health to him that circles round | W |
And where the creature lies with crimson wound | W |
And cold stark limbs and purple eyes half closed | W |
There shall her gentle feet at morn be found | W |
Of such strange mixtures is the heart composed | W |
So natural soft so hard by cunning CUSTOM glozed | W |
XIV | L |
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But lo the Sabbath rises o'er those hills | L |
And gathering fast from many a distant home | D2 |
By wild romantic paths and shallow rills | L |
The Highland groups to distant worship come | E2 |
Lightly their footsteps climb inured to roam | D2 |
Miles through the trackless heather day by day | W |
Lasses with feet as white as driven foam | D2 |
And lads whose various tartans brightly gay | W |
With shifting colour deck the winding mountain way | W |
XV | L |
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And some with folded hands and looks demure | F2 |
Are nathless stealing lingering looks behind | W |
Their young hearts not less reverently pure | F2 |
Because they hope to welcome accents kind | W |
And in that Sabbath crowd the Loved to find | W |
And children glancing with their innocent eyes | L |
At every flower that quivers in the wind | W |
And grey haired shepherds calm and old and wise | L |
With peasant wisdom drawn from gazing on the skies | L |
XVI | L |
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And Auld Wives who with Sabbath care have donned | W |
Their snowy mutches clean and fresh and white | W |
And pious eyes that well The BOOK have conned | W |
And snooded heads bound round with ribands bright | W |
And last an old man's grandchild treading light | W |
By his blind footsteps or a Mother mild | W |
Whose shadowy lashes veil her downcast sight | W |
Bearing along her lately christened child | W |
And still by friendly talk their journey is beguiled | W |
XVII | L |
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Oh Scotland Scotland in these later days | L |
How hath thy decent worship been disgraced | W |
Where on your Sabbath hills for prayer and praise | L |
Solemn the feet of reverend elders paced | W |
With what wild brawling with what ruffian haste | W |
Gathering to brandish Discord's fatal torch | G2 |
Have men your sacred altar grounds defaced | W |
Mocking with howling fury at the porch | G2 |
The ever listening God in his own holy Church | H2 |
XVIII | L |
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The Taught would choose their Teacher be it so | L |
Doubtless his lessons they will humbly learn | I2 |
Bowing the meek heart reverently low | L |
Who first claim right to choose him or to spurn | I2 |
Drop sentences of suffrage in the urn | I2 |
And ballot for that Minister of God | W |
Whose sacred mission is to bid them turn | I2 |
Obedient eyes toward the chastening rod | W |
And walk the narrow path by humbler Christians trod | W |
XIX | L |
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Choose since your forms permit that choice to be | L |
But choose in | J2 |
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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