Poem In October Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACADEFGH IJKLMNOIPQ RRIIISGRTS IUVWXYZVA2B2 SC2ID2D2D2ID2E2D2 D2F2D2G2RG2H2D2I2D2 A2IRAJ2K2L2M2N2R| It was my thirtieth year to heaven | A |
| Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood | B |
| And the mussel pooled and the heron | A |
| Priested shore | C |
| The morning beckon | A |
| With water praying and call of seagull and rook | D |
| And the knock of sailing boats on the net webbed wall | E |
| Myself to set foot | F |
| That second | G |
| In the still sleeping town and set forth | H |
| - | |
| My birthday began with the water | I |
| Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name | J |
| Above the farms and the white horses | K |
| And I rose | L |
| In rainy autumn | M |
| And walked abroad in a shower of all my days | N |
| High tide and the heron dived when I took the road | O |
| Over the border | I |
| And the gates | P |
| Of the town closed as the town awoke | Q |
| - | |
| A springful of larks in a rolling | R |
| Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling | R |
| Blackbirds and the sun of October | I |
| Summery | I |
| On the hill's shoulder | I |
| Here were fond climates and sweet singers suddenly | S |
| Come in the morning where I wandered and listened | G |
| To the rain wringing | R |
| Wind blow cold | T |
| In the wood faraway under me | S |
| - | |
| Pale rain over the dwindling harbour | I |
| And over the sea wet church the size of a snail | U |
| With its horns through mist and the castle | V |
| Brown as owls | W |
| But all the gardens | X |
| Of spring and summer were blooming in the tall tales | Y |
| Beyond the border and under the lark full cloud | Z |
| There could I marvel | V |
| My birthday | A2 |
| Away but the weather turned around | B2 |
| - | |
| It turned away from the blithe country | S |
| And down the other air and the blue altered sky | C2 |
| Streamed again a wonder of summer | I |
| With apples | D2 |
| Pears and red currants | D2 |
| And I saw in the turning so clearly a child's | D2 |
| Forgotten mornings when he walked with his mother | I |
| Through the parables | D2 |
| Of sun light | E2 |
| And the legends of the green chapels | D2 |
| - | |
| And the twice told fields of infancy | D2 |
| That his tears burned my cheeks and his heart moved in mine | F2 |
| These were the woods the river and sea | D2 |
| Where a boy | G2 |
| In the listening | R |
| Summertime of the dead whispered the truth of his joy | G2 |
| To the trees and the stones and the fish in the tide | H2 |
| And the mystery | D2 |
| Sang alive | I2 |
| Still in the water and singingbirds | D2 |
| - | |
| And there could I marvel my birthday | A2 |
| Away but the weather turned around And the true | I |
| Joy of the long dead child sang burning | R |
| In the sun | A |
| It was my thirtieth | J2 |
| Year to heaven stood there then in the summer noon | K2 |
| Though the town below lay leaved with October blood | L2 |
| O may my heart's truth | M2 |
| Still be sung | N2 |
| On this high hill in a year's turning | R |
Dylan Thomas
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