Autumn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCB ABCDDEEFAFA GHHBGGBIII JJKKK LGGLMMNN OOPQPRSSBTB Q U UFF UUUF| I dwell alone I dwell alone alone | A |
| Whilst full my river flows down to the sea | B |
| Gilded with flashing boats | C |
| That bring no friend to me | B |
| O love songs gurgling from a hundred throats | C |
| O love pangs let me be | B |
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| Fair fall the freighted boats which gold and stone | A |
| And spices bear to sea | B |
| Slim gleaming maidens swell their mellow notes | C |
| Love promising entreating | D |
| Ah sweet but fleeting | D |
| Beneath the shivering snow white sails | E |
| Hush the wind flags and fails | E |
| Hush they will lie becalmed in sight of strand | F |
| Sight of my strand where I do dwell alone | A |
| Their songs wake singing echoes in my land | F |
| They cannot hear me moan | A |
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| One latest solitary swallow flies | G |
| Across the sea rough autumn tempest tossed | H |
| Poor bird shall it be lost | H |
| Dropped down into this uncongenial sea | B |
| With no kind eyes | G |
| To watch it while it dies | G |
| Unguessed uncared for free | B |
| Set free at last | I |
| The short pang past | I |
| In sleep in death in dreamless sleep locked fast | I |
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| Mine avenue is all a growth of oaks | J |
| Some rent by thunder strokes | J |
| Some rustling leaves and acorns in the breeze | K |
| Fair fall my fertile trees | K |
| That rear their goodly heads and live at ease | K |
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| A spider's web blocks all mine avenue | L |
| He catches down and foolish painted flies | G |
| That spider wary and wise | G |
| Each morn it hangs a rainbow strung with dew | L |
| Betwixt boughs green with sap | M |
| So fair few creatures guess it is a trap | M |
| I will not mar the web | N |
| Though sad I am to see the small lives ebb | N |
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| It shakes my trees shake for a wind is roused | O |
| In cavern where it housed | O |
| Each white and quivering sail | P |
| Of boats among the water leaves | Q |
| Hollows and strains in the full throated gale | P |
| Each maiden sings again | R |
| Each languid maiden whom the calm | S |
| Had lulled to sleep with rest and spice and balm | S |
| Miles down my river to the sea | B |
| They float and wane | T |
| Long miles away from me | B |
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| Perhaps they say 'She grieves | Q |
| Uplifted like a beacon on her tower ' | - |
| Perhaps they say 'One hour | U |
| More and we dance among the golden sheaves ' | - |
| Perhaps they say 'One hour | U |
| More and we stand | F |
| Face to face hand in hand | F |
| Make haste O slack gale to the looked for land ' | - |
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| My trees are not in flower | U |
| I have no bower | U |
| And gusty creaks my tower | U |
| And lonesome very lonesome is my strand | F |
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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