An Autumnal Extravaganza Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEFE GGHIJKKJLLMGMGNOOPPN NQRQRRSSTKTKUUVVWWXX| With a sweeter voice than birds | A |
| Dare to twitter in their sleep | B |
| Pipe for me a tune of words | A |
| Till my dancing fancies leap | B |
| Into freedom vaster far | C |
| Than the realms of Reason are | C |
| Sing for me with wilder fire | D |
| Than the lover ever sung | E |
| From the time he twanged the lyre | F |
| When the world was baby young | E |
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| O my maiden Autumn you | G |
| You have filled me through and through | G |
| With a passion so intense | H |
| All of earthly eloquence | I |
| Fails and falls and swoons away | J |
| In your presence Like as one | K |
| Who essays to look the sun | K |
| Fairly in the face I say | J |
| Though my eyes you dazzle blind | L |
| Greater dazzled is my mind | L |
| So my Autumn let me kneel | M |
| At your feet and worship you | G |
| Be my sweetheart let me feel | M |
| Your caress and tell me too | G |
| Why your smiles bewilder me | N |
| Glancing into laughter then | O |
| Trancing into calm again | O |
| Till your meaning drowning lies | P |
| In the dim depths of your eyes | P |
| Let me see the things you see | N |
| Down the depths of mystery | N |
| Blow aside the hazy veil | Q |
| From the daylight of your face | R |
| With the fragrance ladened gale | Q |
| Of your spicy breath and chase | R |
| Every dimple to its place | R |
| Lift your gipsy finger tips | S |
| To the roses of your lips | S |
| And fling down to me a bud | T |
| But an unblown kiss but one | K |
| It shall blossom in my blood | T |
| Even after life is done | K |
| When I dare to touch the brow | U |
| Your rare hair is veiling now | U |
| When the rich red golden strands | V |
| Of the treasure in my hands | V |
| Shall be all of worldly worth | W |
| Heaven lifted from the earth | W |
| Like a banner to have set | X |
| On its highest minaret | X |
James Whitcomb Riley
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