Autumn Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGDH IDJK LMNO A PQRQ STUT VWXW| I | A |
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| Now will we plunge into the frigid dark | B |
| The living light of summer gone too soon | C |
| A ready I can hear a dismal sound | D |
| The thump of logs on courtyard paving stones | E |
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| All winter comes into my being wrath | F |
| Hate chills and horror forced and plodding work | G |
| And like the sun in polar underground | D |
| My heart will be a red and frozen block | H |
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| I Shudder as I hear each log that drops | I |
| A gallows being built makes no worse sound | D |
| My mind is like the tower that succumbs | J |
| Under a heavy engine battered down | K |
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| It seems to me dull with this constant thud | L |
| That someone nails a coffin but for whom | M |
| Yesterday summer now the fall something | N |
| With all this eerie pounding will be gone | O |
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| II | A |
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| I love the greenish light in your long eyes | P |
| My sweet but all is bitterness to me | Q |
| And nothing not the boudoir nor the hearth | R |
| Today is worth the sunlight on the sea | Q |
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| But love me anyway o tender heart | S |
| Be mother of this mean ungrateful one | T |
| O lover sister be the fleeting sweetness | U |
| Of the autumn of the setting sun | T |
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| Brief task The Tomb is waiting in its greed | V |
| Kneeling before you let me taste and hold | W |
| While I lament the summer fierce and white | X |
| A ray of the late fall mellow and gold | W |
Charles Baudelaire
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