Autumn In Meran Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF EGEG HIHI JKJK| The vintage time is gone but not its glory | A |
| The grapes are garnered from their leafy gloom | B |
| Yet miles of vineyards story crowning story | A |
| Cover the hillsides with a golden bloom | B |
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| The vine clad terraces descend the mountains | C |
| Like cascades rippling with resplendent gold | D |
| Steeped in the sun and fed by sweet voiced fountains | C |
| Tyrolean slopes a paradise unfold | D |
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| Above the vines the mountain sides are blending | E |
| The oaks' and maples' multicolored glow | F |
| In variegated zones their hues ascending | E |
| From radiant roses to eternal snow | F |
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| Now here now there through brilliant foliage peeping | E |
| A ruined castle seeks its walls to hide | G |
| High on some lonely crag in silence sleeping | E |
| Left centuries since by history's ebbing tide | G |
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| In sparkling foam the beryl colored river | H |
| Laughs in the sunshine between tinted walls | I |
| While on the cliffs the scarlet creepers shiver | H |
| Chilled by the breeze as sunset's shadow falls | I |
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| Still in the valley Summer reigns victorious | J |
| Though Winter's silvery sheen creeps slowly down | K |
| Land of the vine and snow at all times glorious | J |
| In Autumn wearest thou thy fairest crown | K |
John L. Stoddard
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