Poem In October Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACADEFGH IJKLMNOIPQ RRIIISGRTS IUVWXYZVA2B2 SC2ID2D2D2ID2E2D2 D2F2D2G2RG2H2D2I2D2 A2IRAJ2K2L2M2N2RIt 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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