Autumn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCB ABCDDEEFAFA GFFBGGBFFF HHIII JGGJKKLL FFMNMOPPBQBNRRNRFFF RRRF| 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 tost | F |
| Poor bird shall it be lost | F |
| 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 | F |
| The short pang past | F |
| In sleep in death in dreamless sleep locked fast | F |
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| Mine avenue is all a growth of oaks | H |
| Some rent by thunder strokes | H |
| Some rustling leaves and acorns in the breeze | I |
| Fair fall my fertile trees | I |
| That rear their goodly heads and live at ease | I |
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| A spider's web blocks all mine avenue | J |
| He catches down and foolish painted flies | G |
| That spider wary and wise | G |
| Each morn it hangs a rainbow strung with dew | J |
| Betwixt boughs green with sap | K |
| So fair few creatures guess it is a trap | K |
| I will not mar the web | L |
| Though sad I am to see the small lives ebb | L |
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| It shakes my trees shake for a wind is roused | F |
| In cavern where it housed | F |
| Each white and quivering sail | M |
| Of boats among the water leaves | N |
| Hollows and strains in the full throated gale | M |
| Each maiden sings again | O |
| Each languid maiden whom the calm | P |
| Had lulled to sleep with rest and spice and balm | P |
| Miles down my river to the sea | B |
| They float and wane | Q |
| Long miles away from me | B |
| Perhaps they say She grieves | N |
| Uplifted like a beacon on her tower | R |
| Perhaps they say One hour | R |
| More and we dance among the golden sheaves | N |
| Perhaps they say One hour | R |
| More and we stand | F |
| Face to face hand in hand | F |
| Make haste O slack gale to the looked for land | F |
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| My trees are not in flower | R |
| I have no bower | R |
| And gusty creaks my tower | R |
| And lonesome very lonesome is my strand | F |
Christina Rossetti
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