Autumn Orchards Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DBBE FBBF AGGA| Walled with far azures of the wintering year | A |
| Late autumn on a windless altar burns | B |
| Splendid as rubies from Sabean urns | B |
| A holocaust of hues is gathered here | C |
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| The pear trees lift a Tyrian tinged with blood | D |
| Strange purples brighten in the smouldering plums | B |
| The fire red gold of peach and cherry comes | B |
| To storm the bronzing borders of the wood | E |
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| Rich as the pyre of some Hesperian queen | F |
| Feeding the ultimate sunset with sad fires | B |
| Is this where beauty with her doom conspires | B |
| To tell in flame what death and beauty mean | F |
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| O loveliness grown tragical and dear | A |
| My heart has taken from the torchful leaf | G |
| A swiftly soaring glory and the grief | G |
| Of love is colored like the dying year | A |
Clark Ashton Smith
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