The November Pansy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDCD EFFEGEG HIJJKJK LMNLOLO PKKPJPJ QRRQSQS JGGJTJT UJJUVUV JWWJXJX XXXXKXK| This is not June by Autumn's stratagem | A |
| Thou hast been ambushed in the chilly air | B |
| Upon thy fragile crest virginal fair | B |
| The rime has clustered in a diadem | C |
| The early frost | D |
| Has nipped thy roots and tried thy tender stem | C |
| Seared thy gold petals all thy charm is lost | D |
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| Thyself the only sunshine in obeying | E |
| The law that bids thee blossom in the world | F |
| Thy little flag of courage is unfurled | F |
| Inherent pansy memories are saying | E |
| That there is sun | G |
| That there is dew and colour and warmth repaying | E |
| The rain the starlight when the light is done | G |
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| These are the gaunt forms of the hollyhocks | H |
| That shower the seeds from out their withered purses | I |
| Here were the pinks there the nasturtium nurses | J |
| The last of colour in her gaudy smocks | J |
| The ruins yonder | K |
| Show but a vestige of the flaming phlox | J |
| The poppies on their faded glory ponder | K |
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| Here visited the vagrant humming bird | L |
| The nebulous darting green the ruby throated | M |
| The warm fans of the butterfly here floated | N |
| Those two nests reared the robins and the third | L |
| Was left forlorn | O |
| Muffled in lilacs whence the perfume stirred | L |
| The tremulous eyelids of the dewy morn | O |
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| Thy sisters of the early summer time | P |
| Were masquers in this carnival of pleasure | K |
| Each in her turn unrolled her golden treasure | K |
| And thou hast but the ashes of the prime | P |
| 'Tis life's own malice | J |
| That brings the peasant of a race sublime | P |
| To feed her flock around her ruined palace | J |
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| Yet for withstanding thus the autumn's dart | Q |
| Some deeper pansy insight will atone | R |
| It comes to souls neglected and alone | R |
| Something that prodigals in pleasure's mart | Q |
| Lose in the whirl | S |
| The peasant child will have a purer heart | Q |
| Than the vain favourite of the vanished earl | S |
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| And far above this tragic world of ours | J |
| There is a world of a diviner fashion | G |
| A mystic world a world of dreams and passion | G |
| That each aspiring thing creates and dowers | J |
| With its own light | T |
| Where even the frail spirits of trees and flowers | J |
| Pause and reach out and pass from height to height | T |
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| Here will we claim for thee another fief | U |
| An upland where a glamour haunts the meadows | J |
| Snow peaks arise enrobed in rosy shadows | J |
| Fairer the under slopes with vine and sheaf | U |
| And shimmering lea | V |
| The paradise of a simple old belief | U |
| That flourished in the Islands of the Sea | V |
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| A snow cool cistern in the fairy hills | J |
| Shall feed thy roots with moisture clear as dew | W |
| A ferny shield to temper the warm blue | W |
| That heaven is a thrush that thrills | J |
| To answer his mate | X |
| And when above the ferns the shadow fills | J |
| Fireflies to render darkness consolate | X |
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| Here muse and brood moulding thy seed and die | X |
| And re create thy form a thousand fold | X |
| Mellowing thy petals to more lucent gold | X |
| Till they expand tissues of amber sky | X |
| Till the full hour | K |
| And the full light and the fulfilling eye | X |
| Shall find amid the ferns the perfect flower | K |
Duncan Campbell Scott
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