Chant For Autumn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDC EFEFGFHHIHIGJEIJGI KLHL HMNNNOONPPHHPMMQ QDDRRQSSRSTTVeiled in visionary haze | A |
Behold the ethereal autumn days | A |
Draw near again | B |
In broad array | C |
With a low laborious hum | D |
These ministers of plenty come | D |
That seem to linger while they steal away | C |
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O strange sweet charm | E |
Of peaceful pain | F |
When yonder mountain's bended arm | E |
Seems wafting o'er the harvest plain | F |
A message to the heart that grieves | G |
And round us here a sad hued rain | F |
Of leaves that loosen without number | H |
Showering falls in yellow umber | H |
Red or russet 'thwart the stream | I |
Now pale Sorrow shall encumber | H |
All too soon these lands I deem | I |
Yet who at heart believes | G |
The autumn a false friend | J |
Can bring us fatal harm | E |
Ah mist hung avenues in dream | I |
Not more uncertainly extend | J |
Than the season that receives | G |
A summer's latest gleam | I |
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But the days of death advance | K |
They tarry not nor turn | L |
I will gather the ashes of summer | H |
In my heart as an urn | L |
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Oh draw thou nearer | H |
Thou | M |
Spirit of the distant height | N |
Whither now that slender flight | N |
Of swallows winging guides my sight | N |
The hill cloth seem to me | O |
A fading memory | O |
Of long delight | N |
And in its distant blue | P |
Half hideth from my view | P |
This shrinking season that must now retire | H |
And so shall hold it hopeful a desire | H |
And knowledge old as night and always new | P |
Draw nigher And with bended brow | M |
I will be thy reverer | M |
Through the long winter's term | Q |
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So when the snows hold firm | Q |
And the brook is dumb | D |
When sharp winds come | D |
To flay the hill tops bleak | R |
And whistle down the creek | R |
While the unhappy worm | Q |
Crawls deeper down into the ground | S |
To 'scape Frost's jailer on his round | S |
Thy form to me shall speak | R |
From the wide valley's bound | S |
Recall the waving of the last bird's wing | T |
And help me hope for spring | T |
George Parsons Lathrop
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