Chant For Autumn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDC EFEFGFHHIHIGJEIJGI KLHL HMNNNOONPPHHPMMQ QDDRRQSSRSTT

Veiled in visionary hazeA
Behold the ethereal autumn daysA
Draw near againB
In broad arrayC
With a low laborious humD
These ministers of plenty comeD
That seem to linger while they steal awayC
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O strange sweet charmE
Of peaceful painF
When yonder mountain's bended armE
Seems wafting o'er the harvest plainF
A message to the heart that grievesG
And round us here a sad hued rainF
Of leaves that loosen without numberH
Showering falls in yellow umberH
Red or russet 'thwart the streamI
Now pale Sorrow shall encumberH
All too soon these lands I deemI
Yet who at heart believesG
The autumn a false friendJ
Can bring us fatal harmE
Ah mist hung avenues in dreamI
Not more uncertainly extendJ
Than the season that receivesG
A summer's latest gleamI
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But the days of death advanceK
They tarry not nor turnL
I will gather the ashes of summerH
In my heart as an urnL
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Oh draw thou nearerH
ThouM
Spirit of the distant heightN
Whither now that slender flightN
Of swallows winging guides my sightN
The hill cloth seem to meO
A fading memoryO
Of long delightN
And in its distant blueP
Half hideth from my viewP
This shrinking season that must now retireH
And so shall hold it hopeful a desireH
And knowledge old as night and always newP
Draw nigher And with bended browM
I will be thy revererM
Through the long winter's termQ
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So when the snows hold firmQ
And the brook is dumbD
When sharp winds comeD
To flay the hill tops bleakR
And whistle down the creekR
While the unhappy wormQ
Crawls deeper down into the groundS
To 'scape Frost's jailer on his roundS
Thy form to me shall speakR
From the wide valley's boundS
Recall the waving of the last bird's wingT
And help me hope for springT

George Parsons Lathrop



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