Incantation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCDDDEF GGHIJJBBKKLLMMNNOPQQ RRSSTTURVVRRWWXRXR| When the leaves by thousands thinned | A |
| A thousand times have whirled in the wind | B |
| And the moon with hollow cheek | C |
| Staring from her hollow height | D |
| Consolation seems to seek | C |
| From the dim reechoing night | D |
| And the fog streaks dead and white | D |
| Lie like ghosts of lost delight | D |
| O'er highest earth and lowest sky | E |
| Then Autumn work thy witchery | F |
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| Strew the ground with poppy seeds | G |
| And let my bed be hung with weeds | G |
| Growing gaunt and rank and tall | H |
| Drooping o'er me like a pall | I |
| Send thy stealthy white eyed mist | J |
| Across my brow to turn and twist | J |
| Fold on fold and leave me blind | B |
| To all save visions in the mind | B |
| Then in the depth of rain fed streams | K |
| I shall slumber and in dreams | K |
| Slide through some long glen that burns | L |
| With a crust of blood red ferns | L |
| And brown withered wings of brake | M |
| Like a burning lava lake | M |
| So urged to fearful faster flow | N |
| By the awful gasp Hahk hahk of the crow | N |
| Shall pass by many a haunted rood | O |
| Of the nutty odorous wood | P |
| Or where the hemlocks lean and loom | Q |
| Shall fill my heart with bitter gloom | Q |
| Till lured by light reflected cloud | R |
| I burst aloft my watery shroud | R |
| And upward through the ether sail | S |
| Far above the shrill wind's wail | S |
| But falling thence my soul involve | T |
| With the dust dead flowers dissolve | T |
| And gliding out at last to sea | U |
| Lulled to a long tranquillity | R |
| The perfect poise of seasons keep | V |
| With the tides that rest at neap | V |
| So must be fulfilled the rite | R |
| That giveth me the dead year's might | R |
| And at dawn I shall arise | W |
| A spirit though with human eyes | W |
| A human form and human face | X |
| And where'er I go or stay | R |
| There the summer's perished grace | X |
| Shall be with me night and day | R |
George Parsons Lathrop
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