A Dream Of Autumn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABAAAB AAACAAAC DDDEFFFE GGGFHHHF EEEIAAAI EEEEAAAE| Mellow 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 |
| - | |
| 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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