Early Autumn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HIJI IIKI LBLB| With half hearted levies of frost that make foray | A |
| retire and refrain | B |
| Ambiguous bugles that blow and that falter to | C |
| silence again | D |
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| With banners of mist that still waver above them | E |
| advance and retreat | F |
| The hosts of the Autumn still hide in the hills | G |
| for a doubt stays their feet | F |
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| But anon with a barbaric splendor to dazzle the | H |
| eyes that behold | I |
| And regal in raiment of purple and umber and | J |
| amber and gold | I |
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| And girt with the glamor of conquest and scarved | I |
| with red symbols of pride | I |
| From the hills in their might and their mirth on | K |
| the steeds of the wind will they ride | I |
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| To make sport and make spoil of the Summer | L |
| who dwells in a dream on the plain | B |
| Still tented in opulent ease in the camps of her | L |
| indolent train | B |
Don Marquis
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