Chant For Autumn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDC EFEFGFHHIHIGJEIJGI KLHL HMNNNOONPPHHPMMQ QDDRRQSSRSTT| Veiled 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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