An Autumn Sunset Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDBDCEEFFEEGHE A EBIBEJGJGKKEELKKEELE EE| I | A |
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| Leaguered in fire | B |
| The wild black promontories of the coast extend | C |
| Their savage silhouettes | D |
| The sun in universal carnage sets | D |
| And halting higher | B |
| The motionless storm clouds mass their sullen threats | D |
| Like an advancing mob in sword points penned | C |
| That balked yet stands at bay | E |
| Mid zenith hangs the fascinated day | E |
| In wind lustrated hollows crystalline | F |
| A wan Valkyrie whose wide pinions shine | F |
| Across the ensanguined ruins of the fray | E |
| And in her hand swings high o'erhead | E |
| Above the waste of war | G |
| The silver torch light of the evening star | H |
| Wherewith to search the faces of the dead | E |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| Lagooned in gold | E |
| Seem not those jetty promontories rather | B |
| The outposts of some ancient land forlorn | I |
| Uncomforted of morn Where old oblivions gather | B |
| The melancholy unconsoling fold | E |
| Of all things that go utterly to death | J |
| And mix no more no more | G |
| With life's perpetually awakening breath | J |
| Shall Time not ferry me to such a shore | G |
| Over such sailless seas | K |
| To walk with hope's slain importunities | K |
| In miserable marriage Nay shall not | E |
| All things be there forgot | E |
| Save the sea's golden barrier and the black | L |
| Close crouching promontories | K |
| Dead to all shames forgotten of all glories | K |
| Shall I not wander there a shadow's shade | E |
| A spectre self destroyed | E |
| So purged of all remembrance and sucked back | L |
| Into the primal void | E |
| That should we on that shore phantasmal meet | E |
| I should not know the coming of your feet | E |
Edith Wharton
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