For An Autumn Festival Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG BHIH JKJK LMLM NONO PCQC RSRS TUTV WKXK EFEG| The Persian's flowery gifts the shrine | A |
| Of fruitful Ceres charm no more | B |
| The woven wreaths of oak and pine | A |
| Are dust along the Isthmian shore | B |
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| But beauty hath its homage still | C |
| And nature holds us still in debt | D |
| And woman's grace and household skill | C |
| And manhood's toil are honored yet | D |
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| And we to day amidst our flowers | E |
| And fruits have come to own again | F |
| The blessings of the summer hours | E |
| The early and the latter rain | G |
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| To see our Father's hand once more | B |
| Reverse for us the plenteous horn | H |
| Of autumn filled and running o'er | I |
| With fruit and flower and golden corn | H |
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| Once more the liberal year laughs out | J |
| O'er richer stores than gems or gold | K |
| Once more with harvest song and shout | J |
| Is Nature's bloodless triumph told | K |
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| Our common mother rests and sings | L |
| Like Ruth among her garnered sheaves | M |
| Her lap is full of goodly things | L |
| Her brow is bright with autumn leaves | M |
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| Oh favors every year made new | N |
| Oh gifts with rain and sunshine sent | O |
| The bounty overruns our due | N |
| The fulness shames our discontent | O |
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| We shut our eyes the flowers bloom on | P |
| We murmur but the corn ears fill | C |
| We choose the shadow but the sun | Q |
| That casts it shines behind us still | C |
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| God gives us with our rugged soil | R |
| The power to make it Eden fair | S |
| And richer fruits to crown our toil | R |
| Than summer wedded islands bear | S |
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| Who murmurs at his lot to day | T |
| Who scorns his native fruit and bloom | U |
| Or sighs for dainties far away | T |
| Beside the bounteous board of home | V |
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| Thank Heaven instead that Freedom's arm | W |
| Can change a rocky soil to gold | K |
| That brave and generous lives can warm | X |
| A clime with northern ices cold | K |
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| And let these altars wreathed with flowers | E |
| And piled with fruits awake again | F |
| Thanksgivings for the golden hours | E |
| The early and the latter rain | G |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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