A Spell Before Winter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG GHGIJKLGGMGG| After the red leaf and the gold have gone | A |
| Brought down by the wind then by hammering rain | B |
| Bruised and discolored when October's flame | C |
| Goes blue to guttering in the cusp this land | D |
| Sinks deeper into silence darker into shade | E |
| There is a knowledge in the look of things | F |
| The old hills hunch before the north wind blows | G |
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| Now I can see certain simplicities | G |
| In the darkening rust and tarnish of the time | H |
| And say over the certain simplicities | G |
| The running water and the standing stone | I |
| The yellow haze of the willow and the black | J |
| Smoke of the elm the silver silent light | K |
| Where suddenly readying toward nightfall | L |
| The sumac's candelabrum darkly flames | G |
| And I speak to you now with the land's voice | G |
| It is the cold wild land that says to you | M |
| A knowledge glimmers in the sleep of things | G |
| The old hills hunch before the north wind blows | G |
Howard Nemerov
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