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 'tis | A |
| As a Bacchante's | A |
| A grape spurt a vine splash a tossed tress flown vaunt 'tis | A |
| Suffer my singing | B |
| Gipsy of Seasons ere thou go winging | B |
| Ere Winter throws | A |
| His slaking snows | A |
| In thy feasting flagon's impurpurate glows | A |
| The sopped sun toper as ever drank hard | C |
| Stares foolish hazed | C |
| Rubicund dazed | C |
| Totty with thine October tankard | C |
| Tanned maiden with cheeks like apples russet | C |
| And breast a brown agaric faint flushing at tip | D |
| And a mouth too red for the moon to buss it | C |
| But her cheek unvow its vestalship | D |
| Thy mists enclip | D |
| Her steel clear circuit illuminous | A |
| Until it crust | C |
| Rubiginous | A |
| With the glorious gules of a glowing rust | C |
| Far other saw we other indeed | C |
| The crescent moon in the May days dead | C |
| Fly up with its slender white wings spread | C |
| Out of its nest in the sea's waved mead | C |
| How are the veins of thee Autumn laden | E |
| Umbered juices | A |
| And pulped oozes | A |
| Pappy out of the cherry bruises | A |
| Froth the veins of thee wild wild maiden | E |
| With hair that musters | A |
| In globed clusters | A |
| In tumbling clusters like swarthy grapes | A |
| Round thy brow and thine ears o'ershaden | E |
| With the burning darkness of eyes like pansies | A |
| Like velvet pansies | A |
| Wherethrough escapes | A |
| The splendid might of thy conflagrate fancies | A |
| With robe gold tawny not hiding the shapes | A |
| Of the feet whereunto it falleth down | E |
| Thy naked feet unsandalled | C |
| With robe gold tawny that does not veil | F |
| Feet where the red | C |
| Is meshed in the brown | E |
| Like a rubied sun in a Venice sail | F |
| - | |
| The wassailous heart of the Year is thine | E |
| His Bacchic fingers disentwine | E |
| His coronal | F |
| At thy festival | F |
| His revelling fingers disentwine | E |
| Leaf flower and all | F |
| And let them fall | F |
| Blossom and all in thy wavering wine | E |
| The Summer looks out from her brazen tower | G |
| Through the flashing bars of July | F |
| Waiting thy ripened golden shower | G |
| Whereof there cometh with sandals fleet | C |
| The North west flying viewlessly | F |
| With a sword to sheer and untameable feet | C |
| And the gorgon head of the Winter shown | E |
| To stiffen the gazing earth as stone | E |
| - | |
| In crystal Heaven's magic sphere | H |
| Poised in the palm of thy fervid hand | C |
| Thou seest the enchanted shows appear | H |
| That stain Favonian firmament | C |
| Richer than ever the Occident | C |
| Gave up to bygone Summer's wand | C |
| Day's dying dragon lies drooping his crest | C |
| Panting red pants into the West | C |
| Or the butterfly sunset claps its wings | A |
| With flitter alit on the swinging blossom | I |
| The gusty blossom that tosses and swings | A |
| Of the sea with its blown and ruffled bosom | I |
| Its ruffled bosom wherethrough the wind sings | A |
| Till the crisped petals are loosened and strown | E |
| Overblown on the sand | C |
| Shed curling as dead | C |
| Rose leaves curl on the flecked strand | C |
| Or higher holier saintlier when as now | E |
| All nature sacerdotal seems and thou | E |
| The calm hour strikes on yon golden gong | J |
| In tones of floating and mellow light | C |
| A spreading summons to even song | J |
| See how there | K |
| The cowled night | C |
| Kneels on the Eastern sanctuary stair | K |
| What is this feel of incense everywhere | K |
| Clings it round folds of the blanch amiced clouds | A |
| Upwafted by the solemn thurifer | K |
| The mighty spirit unknown | E |
| That swingeth the slow earth before the embannered | C |
| Throne | E |
| Or is't the Season under all these shrouds | A |
| Of light and sense and silence makes her known | E |
| A presence everywhere | K |
| An inarticulate prayer | K |
| A hand on the soothed tresses of the air | K |
| But there is one hour scant | C |
| Of this Titanian primal liturgy | L |
| As there is but one hour for me and thee | L |
| Autumn for thee and thine hierophant | C |
| Of this grave ending chant | C |
| Round the earth still and stark | M |
| Heaven's death lights kindle yellow spark by spark | M |
| Beneath the dreadful catafalque of the dark | M |
| - | |
| And I had ended there | K |
| But a great wind blew all the stars to flare | K |
| And cried 'I sweep the path before the moon | E |
| Tarry ye now the coming of the moon | E |
| For she is coming soon ' | - |
| Then died before the coming of the moon | E |
| And she came forth upon the trepidant air | K |
| In vesture unimagined fair | K |
| Woven as woof of flag lilies | A |
| And curdled as of flag lilies | A |
| The vapour at the feet of her | K |
| And a haze about her tinged in fainter wise | A |
| As if she had trodden the stars in press | A |
| Till the gold wine spurted over her dress | A |
| Till the gold wine gushed out round her feet | C |
| Spouted over her stained wear | K |
| And bubbled in golden froth at her feet | C |
| And hung like a whirlpool's mist round her | K |
| Still mighty Season do I see't | C |
| Thy sway is still majestical | F |
| Thou hold'st of God by title sure | K |
| Thine indefeasible investiture | K |
| And that right round thy locks are native to | C |
| The heavens upon thy brow imperial | F |
| This huge terrene thy ball | F |
| And o'er thy shoulders thrown wide air's depending pall | F |
| What if thine earth be blear and bleak of hue | C |
| Still still the skies are sweet | C |
| Still Season still thou hast thy triumphs there | K |
| How have I unaware | K |
| Forgetful of my strain inaugural | F |
| Cleft the great rondure of thy reign complete | C |
| Yielding thee half who hast indeed the all | F |
| I will not think thy sovereignty begun | E |
| But with the shepherd sun | E |
| That washes in the sea the stars' gold fleeces | A |
| Or that with day it ceases | A |
| Who sets his burning lips to the salt brine | E |
| And purples it to wine | E |
| While I behold how ermined Artemis | A |
| Ordained weed must wear | K |
| And toil thy business | A |
| Who witness am of her | K |
| Her too in autumn turned a vintager | K |
| And laden with its lamped clusters bright | C |
| The fiery fruited vineyard of this night | C |
Francis Thompson
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