The Four Seasons : Autumn Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Crown'd with the sickle and the wheaten sheaf	A
While Autumn nodding o'er the yellow plain	B
Comes jovial on the Doric reed once more	C
Well pleased I tune Whate'er the wintry frost	D
Nitrous prepared the various blossom'd Spring	E
Put in white promise forth and Summer suns	F
Concocted strong rush boundless now to view	G
Full perfect all and swell my glorious theme	H
Onslow the Muse ambitious of thy name	I
To grace inspire and dignify her song	J
Would from the public voice thy gentle ear	K
A while engage Thy noble cares she knows	L
The patriot virtues that distend thy thought	M
Spread on thy front and in thy bosom glow	N
While listening senates hang upon thy tongue	O
Devolving through the maze of eloquence	P
A roll of periods sweeter than her song	J
But she too pants for public virtue she	Q
Though weak of power yet strong in ardent will	R
Whene'er her country rushes on her heart	S
Assumes a bolder note and fondly tries	T
To mix the patriot's with the poet's flame	I
When the bright Virgin gives the beauteous days	U
And Libra weighs in equal scales the year	V
From Heaven's high cope the fierce effulgence shook	W
Of parting Summer a serener blue	G
With golden light enliven'd wide invests	X
The happy world Attemper'd suns arise	T
Sweet beam'd and shedding oft through lucid clouds	Y
A pleasing calm while broad and brown below	N
Extensive harvests hang the heavy head	Z
Rich silent deep they stand for not a gale	A2
Rolls its light billows o'er the bending plain	B
A calm of plenty till the ruffled air	B2
Falls from its poise and gives the breeze to blow	N
Rent is the fleecy mantle of the sky	C2
The clouds fly different and the sudden sun	D2
By fits effulgent gilds the illumined field	E2
And black by fits the shadows sweep along	J
A gaily chequer'd heart expanding view	G
Far as the circling eye can shoot around	F2
Unbounded tossing in a flood of corn	G2
These are thy blessings Industry rough power	H2
Whom labour still attends and sweat and pain	B
Yet the kind source of every gentle art	S
And all the soft civility of life	I2
Raiser of human kind by Nature cast	J2
Naked and helpless out amid the woods	K2
And wilds to rude inclement elements	L2
With various seeds of art deep in the mind	M2
Implanted and profusely pour'd around	F2
Materials infinite but idle all	N2
Still unexerted in the unconscious breast	O2
Slept the lethargic powers Corruption still	R
Voracious swallow'd what the liberal hand	P2
Of bounty scatter'd o'er the savage year	V
And still the sad barbarian roving mix'd	Q2
With beasts of prey or for his acorn meal	R2
Fought the fierce tusky boar a shivering wretch	Q
Aghast and comfortless when the bleak north	S2
With Winter charged let the mix'd tempest fly	C2
Hail rain and snow and bitter breathing frost	D
Then to the shelter of the hut he fled	Z
And the wild season sordid pined away	T2
For home he had not home is the resort	U2
Of love of joy of peace and plenty where	B2
Supporting and supported polish'd friends	V2
And dear relations mingle into bliss	W2
But this the rugged savage never felt	X2
E'en desolate in crowds and thus his days	U
Roll'd heavy dark and unenjoy'd along	J
A waste of time till Industry approach'd	Y2
And roused him from his miserable sloth	Z2
His faculties unfolded pointed out	A3
Where lavish Nature the directing hand	P2
Of art demanded show'd him how to raise	U
His feeble force by the mechanic powers	B3
To dig the mineral from the vaulted earth	C3
On what to turn the piercing rage of fire	H2
On what the torrent and the gather'd blast	J2
Gave the tall ancient forest to his axe	D3
Taught him to chip the wood and hew the stone	E3
Till by degrees the finish'd fabric rose	L
Tore from his limbs the blood polluted fur	H2
And wrapt them in the woolly vestment warm	F3
Or bright in glossy silk and flowing lawn	G3
With wholesome viands fill'd his table pour'd	H3
The generous glass around inspired to wake	I3
The life refining soul of decent wit	J3
Nor stopp'd at barren bare necessity	Q
But still advancing bolder led him on	K3
To pomp to pleasure elegance and grace	L3
And breathing high ambition through his soul	M3
Set science wisdom glory in his view	G
And bade him be the Lord of all below	N
Then gathering men their natural powers combined	M2
And form'd a Public to the general good	N3
Submitting aiming and conducting all	N2
For this the Patriot Council met the full	O3
The free and fairly represented Whole	M3
For this they plann'd the holy guardian laws	P3
Distinguish'd orders animated arts	Q3
And with joint force Oppression chaining set	R3
Imperial Justice at the helm yet still	R
To them accountable nor slavish dream'd	S3
That toiling millions must resign their weal	R
And all the honey of their search to such	Q
As for themselves alone themselves have raised	T3
Hence every form of cultivated life	I2
In order set protected and inspired	U3
Into perfection wrought Uniting all	R
Society grew numerous high polite	V3
And happy Nurse of art the city rear'd	W3
In beauteous pride her tower encircled head	Z
And stretching street on street by thousands drew	G
From twining woody haunts or the tough yew	G
To bows strong straining her aspiring sons	F
Then Commerce brought into the public walk	X3
The busy merchant the big warehouse built	Y3
Raised the strong crane choked up the loaded street	Z3
With foreign plenty and thy stream O Thames	A4
Large gentle deep majestic king of floods	B4
Chose for his grand resort On either hand	P2
Like a long wintry forest groves of masts	C4
Shot up their spires the bellying sheet between	D4
Possess'd the breezy void the sooty hulk	E4
Steer'd sluggish on the splendid barge along	J
Row'd regular to harmony around	F2
The boat light skimming stretch'd its oary wings	F4
While deep the various voice of fervent toil	R
From bank to bank increased whence ribb'd with oak	G4
To bear the British thunder black and bold	H4
The roaring vessel rush'd into the main	B
Then too the pillar'd dome magnific heaved	I4
Its ample roof and Luxury within	J4
Pour'd out her glittering stores the canvass smooth	K4
With glowing life protuberant to the view	G
Embodied rose the statue seem'd to breathe	L4
And soften into flesh beneath the touch	Q
Of forming art imagination flush'd	M4
All is the gift of Industry whate'er	H2
Exalts embellishes and renders life	I2
Delightful Pensive Winter cheer'd by him	N4
Sits at the social fire and happy hears	O4
The excluded tempest idly rave along	J
His harden'd fingers deck the gaudy Spring	E
Without him Summer were an arid waste	P4
Nor to the Autumnal months could thus transmit	J3
Those full mature immeasurable stores	Q4
That waving round recall my wandering song	J
Soon as the morning trembles o'er the sky	C2
And unperceived unfolds the spreading day	T2
Before the ripen'd field the reapers stand	P2
In fair array each by the lass he loves	R4
To bear the rougher part and mitigate	S4
By nameless gentle offices her toil	R
At once they stoop and swell the lusty sheaves	T4
While through their cheerful band the rural talk	X3
The rural scandal and the rural jest	O2
Fly harmless to deceive the tedious time	U4
And steal unfelt the sultry hours away	T2
Behind the master walks builds up the shocks	V4
And conscious glancing oft on every side	W4
His sated eye feels his heart heave with joy	X4
The gleaners spread around and here and there	B2
Spike after spike their scanty harvest pick	Y4
Be not too narrow husbandmen but fling	E
From the full sheaf with charitable stealth	Z4
The liberal handful Think oh grateful think
How good the God of Harvest is to you	G
Who pours abundance o'er your flowing fields
While these unhappy partners of your kind	M2
Wide hover round you like the fowls of heaven	D2
And ask their humble dole The various turns
Of fortune ponder that your sons may want
What now with hard reluctance faint ye give
The lovely young Lavinia

James Thomson

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