Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Autumnal Nightfall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDEC FGGF HCCI JGGG KLLK MNNM GOOG PQQR STMU DVVE

Round Autumn's mouldering urnA
Loud mourns the chill and cheerless galeB
When nightfall shades the quiet valeB
And stars in beauty burnA
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'Tis the year's eventideC
The wind like one that sighs in painD
O er joys that ne'er will bloom againE
Mourns on the far hillsideC
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And yet my pensive eyeF
Rests on the faint blue mountain longG
And for the fairy land of songG
That lies beyond I sighF
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The moon unveils her browH
In the mid sky her urn glows brightC
And in her sad and mellowing lightC
The valley sleeps belowI
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Upon the hazel grayJ
The lyre of Autumn hangs unstrungG
And o er its tremulous chords are flungG
The fringes of decayG
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I stand deep musing hereK
Beneath the dark and motionless beechL
Whilst wandering winds of nightfall reachL
My melancholy earK
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The air breathes chill and freeM
A spirit in soft music callsN
From Autumn's gray and moss grown hallsN
And round her withered treeM
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The hoar and mantled oakG
With moss and twisted ivy brownO
Bends in its lifeless beauty downO
Where weeds the fountain chokeG
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That fountain's hollow voiceP
Echoes the sound of precious thingsQ
Of early feeling's tuneful springsQ
Choked with our blighted joysR
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Leaves that the night wind bearsS
To earth's cold bosom with a signT
Are types of our mortalityM
And of our fading yearsU
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The tree that shades the plainD
Wasting and hoar as time decaysV
Spring shall renew with cheerful daysV
But not my joys againE

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



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