A Dream Of Autumn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABAAAB AAACAAAC DDDEFFFE GGGFHHHF EEEIAAAI EEEEAAAEMellow hazes lowly trailing | A |
Over wood and meadow veiling | A |
Somber skies with wildfowl sailing | A |
Sailor like to foreign lands | B |
And the north wind overleaping | A |
Summer's brink and floodlike sweeping | A |
Wrecks of roses where the weeping | A |
Willows wring their helpless hands | B |
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Flared like Titan torches flinging | A |
Flakes of flame and embers springing | A |
From the vale the trees stand swinging | A |
In the moaning atmosphere | C |
While in dead'ning lands the lowing | A |
Of the cattle sadder growing | A |
Fills the sense to overflowing | A |
With the sorrow of the year | C |
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Sorrowfully yet the sweeter | D |
Sings the brook in rippled meter | D |
Under boughs that lithely teeter | D |
Lorn birds answering from the shores | E |
Through the viny shady shiny | F |
Interspaces shot with tiny | F |
Flying motes that fleck the winy | F |
Wave engraven sycamores | E |
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Fields of ragged stubble wrangled | G |
With rank weeds and shocks of tangled | G |
Corn with crests like rent plumes dangled | G |
Over Harvest's battle piain | F |
And the sudden whir and whistle | H |
Of the quail that like a missile | H |
Whizzes over thorn and thistle | H |
And a missile drops again | F |
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Muffled voices hid in thickets | E |
Where the redbird stops to stick its | E |
Ruddy beak betwixt the pickets | E |
Of the truant's rustic trap | I |
And the sound of laughter ringing | A |
Where within the wild vine swinging | A |
Climb Bacchante's schoolmates flinging | A |
Purple clusters in her lap | I |
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Rich as wine the sunset flashes | E |
Round the tilted world and dashes | E |
Up the sloping west and splashes | E |
Red foam over sky and sea | E |
Till my dream of Autumn paling | A |
In the splendor all prevailing | A |
Like a sallow leaf goes sailing | A |
Down the silence solemnly | E |
James Whitcomb Riley
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