Songs Of The Autumn Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DADA EFEF GHGI A JKLK MNMN OAPA QRST A UVUV CWCW XYXY ZA2ZA2 B2 EC2EC2 D2VE2V F2YF2Y G2H2G2H2I | A |
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We bore him through the golden land | B |
One early harvest morn | C |
The corn stood ripe on either hand | B |
He knew all about the corn | C |
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How shall the harvest gathered be | D |
Without him standing by | A |
Without him walking on the lea | D |
The sky is scarce a sky | A |
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The year's glad work is almost done | E |
The land is rich in fruit | F |
Yellow it floats in air and sun | E |
Earth holds it by the root | F |
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Why should earth hold it for a day | G |
When harvest time is come | H |
Death is triumphant o'er decay | G |
And leads the ripened home | I |
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II | A |
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And though the sun be not so warm | J |
His shining is not lost | K |
Both corn and hope of heart and farm | L |
Lie hid from coming frost | K |
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The sombre woods are richly sad | M |
Their leaves are red and gold | N |
Are thoughts in solemn splendour clad | M |
Signs that we men grow old | N |
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Strange odours haunt the doubtful brain | O |
From fields and days gone by | A |
And mournful memories again | P |
Are born are loved and die | A |
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The mornings clear the evenings cool | Q |
Foretell no wintry wars | R |
The day of dying leaves is full | S |
The night of glowing stars | T |
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III | A |
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'Tis late before the sun will rise | U |
And early he will go | V |
Gray fringes hang from the gray skies | U |
And wet the ground below | V |
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Red fruit has followed golden corn | C |
The leaves are few and sere | W |
My thoughts are old as soon as born | C |
And chill with coming fear | W |
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The winds lie sick no softest breath | X |
Floats through the branches bare | Y |
A silence as of coming death | X |
Is growing in the air | Y |
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But what must fade can bear to fade | Z |
Was born to meet the ill | A2 |
Creep on old Winter deathly shade | Z |
We sorrow and are still | A2 |
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IV | B2 |
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There is no longer any heaven | E |
To glorify our clouds | C2 |
The rising vapours downward driven | E |
Come home in palls and shrouds | C2 |
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The sun himself is ill bested | D2 |
A heavenly sign to show | V |
His radiance dimmed to glowing red | E2 |
Can hardly further go | V |
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An earthy damp a churchyard gloom | F2 |
Pervade the moveless air | Y |
The year is sinking to its tomb | F2 |
And death is everywhere | Y |
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But while sad thoughts together creep | G2 |
Like bees too cold to sting | H2 |
God's children in their beds asleep | G2 |
Are dreaming of the spring | H2 |
George Macdonald
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