To The Autumn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JBJB KLKL MNMN| Sweet Sabbath of the year | A |
| While evening lights decay | B |
| Thy parting steps methinks I hear | C |
| Steal from the world away | B |
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| Amid thy silent bowers | D |
| 'Tis sad but sweet to dwell | E |
| Where falling leaves and drooping flowers | D |
| Around me breathe farewell | E |
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| Along thy sunset skies | F |
| Their glories melt in shade | G |
| And like the things we fondly prize | F |
| Seem lovelier as they fade | G |
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| A deep and crimson streak | H |
| Thy dying leaves disclose | I |
| As on consumption's waning cheek | H |
| 'Mid ruin blooms the rose | I |
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| Thy scene each vision brings | J |
| Of beauty in decay | B |
| Of fair and early faded things | J |
| Too exquisite to stay | B |
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| Of joys that come no more | K |
| Of flowers whose bloom is fled | L |
| Of farewells wept upon the shore | K |
| Of friends estranged or dead | L |
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| Of all that now may seem | M |
| To memory's tearful eye | N |
| The vanish'd beauty of a dream | M |
| O'er which we gaze and sigh | N |
James Montgomery
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