A Corymbus For Autumn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AAABBAAACCCCCDCDDACA CCCCCEAAAEAAAEAAAAAE CFCEF EEFFEFFEGFGCFCEE HCHCCCCCAIAIAECCCEEJ CJKCKKAKECEAEKKKCLLC CMMM KKEE EKKAAKAAACKCKCFKKCFF FCCKKFCFEEAAEEAKAKKC C

Hearken my chant 'tisA
As a Bacchante'sA
A grape spurt a vine splash a tossed tress flown vaunt 'tisA
Suffer my singingB
Gipsy of Seasons ere thou go wingingB
Ere Winter throwsA
His slaking snowsA
In thy feasting flagon's impurpurate glowsA
The sopped sun toper as ever drank hardC
Stares foolish hazedC
Rubicund dazedC
Totty with thine October tankardC
Tanned maiden with cheeks like apples russetC
And breast a brown agaric faint flushing at tipD
And a mouth too red for the moon to buss itC
But her cheek unvow its vestalshipD
Thy mists enclipD
Her steel clear circuit illuminousA
Until it crustC
RubiginousA
With the glorious gules of a glowing rustC
Far other saw we other indeedC
The crescent moon in the May days deadC
Fly up with its slender white wings spreadC
Out of its nest in the sea's waved meadC
How are the veins of thee Autumn ladenE
Umbered juicesA
And pulped oozesA
Pappy out of the cherry bruisesA
Froth the veins of thee wild wild maidenE
With hair that mustersA
In globed clustersA
In tumbling clusters like swarthy grapesA
Round thy brow and thine ears o'ershadenE
With the burning darkness of eyes like pansiesA
Like velvet pansiesA
Wherethrough escapesA
The splendid might of thy conflagrate fanciesA
With robe gold tawny not hiding the shapesA
Of the feet whereunto it falleth downE
Thy naked feet unsandalledC
With robe gold tawny that does not veilF
Feet where the redC
Is meshed in the brownE
Like a rubied sun in a Venice sailF
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The wassailous heart of the Year is thineE
His Bacchic fingers disentwineE
His coronalF
At thy festivalF
His revelling fingers disentwineE
Leaf flower and allF
And let them fallF
Blossom and all in thy wavering wineE
The Summer looks out from her brazen towerG
Through the flashing bars of JulyF
Waiting thy ripened golden showerG
Whereof there cometh with sandals fleetC
The North west flying viewlesslyF
With a sword to sheer and untameable feetC
And the gorgon head of the Winter shownE
To stiffen the gazing earth as stoneE
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In crystal Heaven's magic sphereH
Poised in the palm of thy fervid handC
Thou seest the enchanted shows appearH
That stain Favonian firmamentC
Richer than ever the OccidentC
Gave up to bygone Summer's wandC
Day's dying dragon lies drooping his crestC
Panting red pants into the WestC
Or the butterfly sunset claps its wingsA
With flitter alit on the swinging blossomI
The gusty blossom that tosses and swingsA
Of the sea with its blown and ruffled bosomI
Its ruffled bosom wherethrough the wind singsA
Till the crisped petals are loosened and strownE
Overblown on the sandC
Shed curling as deadC
Rose leaves curl on the flecked strandC
Or higher holier saintlier when as nowE
All nature sacerdotal seems and thouE
The calm hour strikes on yon golden gongJ
In tones of floating and mellow lightC
A spreading summons to even songJ
See how thereK
The cowled nightC
Kneels on the Eastern sanctuary stairK
What is this feel of incense everywhereK
Clings it round folds of the blanch amiced cloudsA
Upwafted by the solemn thuriferK
The mighty spirit unknownE
That swingeth the slow earth before the embanneredC
ThroneE
Or is't the Season under all these shroudsA
Of light and sense and silence makes her knownE
A presence everywhereK
An inarticulate prayerK
A hand on the soothed tresses of the airK
But there is one hour scantC
Of this Titanian primal liturgyL
As there is but one hour for me and theeL
Autumn for thee and thine hierophantC
Of this grave ending chantC
Round the earth still and starkM
Heaven's death lights kindle yellow spark by sparkM
Beneath the dreadful catafalque of the darkM
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And I had ended thereK
But a great wind blew all the stars to flareK
And cried 'I sweep the path before the moonE
Tarry ye now the coming of the moonE
For she is coming soon '-
Then died before the coming of the moonE
And she came forth upon the trepidant airK
In vesture unimagined fairK
Woven as woof of flag liliesA
And curdled as of flag liliesA
The vapour at the feet of herK
And a haze about her tinged in fainter wiseA
As if she had trodden the stars in pressA
Till the gold wine spurted over her dressA
Till the gold wine gushed out round her feetC
Spouted over her stained wearK
And bubbled in golden froth at her feetC
And hung like a whirlpool's mist round herK
Still mighty Season do I see'tC
Thy sway is still majesticalF
Thou hold'st of God by title sureK
Thine indefeasible investitureK
And that right round thy locks are native toC
The heavens upon thy brow imperialF
This huge terrene thy ballF
And o'er thy shoulders thrown wide air's depending pallF
What if thine earth be blear and bleak of hueC
Still still the skies are sweetC
Still Season still thou hast thy triumphs thereK
How have I unawareK
Forgetful of my strain inauguralF
Cleft the great rondure of thy reign completeC
Yielding thee half who hast indeed the allF
I will not think thy sovereignty begunE
But with the shepherd sunE
That washes in the sea the stars' gold fleecesA
Or that with day it ceasesA
Who sets his burning lips to the salt brineE
And purples it to wineE
While I behold how ermined ArtemisA
Ordained weed must wearK
And toil thy businessA
Who witness am of herK
Her too in autumn turned a vintagerK
And laden with its lamped clusters brightC
The fiery fruited vineyard of this nightC

Francis Thompson



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