The Battle Autumn Of 1862 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBDDBEE FBGBGFHH IIDD BDBDBBJJKBBBK LDKDBIIB MDDM IBBI NNNOPPOQRIIDDIDSTD BBBBDBDUBKKI| Under the orchard boughs | A |
| That drop red leaves like coals into the grass | B |
| The golden arrows of the sunset fall | C |
| And on the vine hung wall | C |
| Great purple clusters in delicious drowse | B |
| Beakers of chrysolite and amethyst | D |
| Yet by the sun unkissed | D |
| Lean down to all the wooing lips that pass | B |
| Brimful of red red wine | E |
| Sweet as brown peasants glean along the castled Rhine | E |
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| All sights and sounds are of the Autumn weather | F |
| The urchin rock'ng in the trees | B |
| Shakes silver laughter with the apples down | G |
| And wading to the knees | B |
| Among the stubble and the husks so brown | G |
| The oxen keeping every patient step together | F |
| Bring in the creaking wain | H |
| High piled with yellow maize and sheaves of rustling grain | H |
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| While in the mill with ceaseless whirr and drone | I |
| With moss and lichens to the roof o'ergrown | I |
| An undertone to every other sound | D |
| The blind old horse goes round | D |
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| Gathered along the farm house eaves | B |
| In noisy congress see the swallows sit | D |
| Or whirling in mid air like autumn leaves | B |
| In airy wheels they flit | D |
| Bright rovers of all summer skies | B |
| I follow them with wistful eyes | B |
| To morrow's sunset they will be | J |
| A thousand leagues by land and sea | J |
| Beyond this wintry hemisphere | K |
| Heaven gathers round their joyous wings | B |
| The sunlight of perpetual springs | B |
| Soft airs and fragrant blossomings | B |
| Through all the glad round year | K |
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| I hear as though I did not hear | L |
| Along the upland fields remote | D |
| The plough boy's whistle silver clear | K |
| For hark' the herds man's graver note | D |
| Who hums beneath the orchard boughs | B |
| The ballad of that grand old man | I |
| Who marshalled freedom's battle van | I |
| And fell no laurel round his brows | B |
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| To day the hero martyr's grave | M |
| Is shaken by the armed tread | D |
| Of patriotic soldiers o'er his head | D |
| Not by the footsteps of one slave | M |
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| So grows the work that he began | I |
| Wrought out in slow and toilsome ways | B |
| Yet ever building through the days | B |
| A grander heritage for man | I |
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| Oh harvest years foretold so long | N |
| Through seas of blood through years of wrong | N |
| A people patient brave and strong | N |
| In camp and field and battle clang | O |
| 'Mid cannon's roar and trumpet's peal | P |
| And shock of war and clash of steel | P |
| For you each steadfast blade out sprang | O |
| In you each loyal heart kept faith | Q |
| As strong as life as stern as death | R |
| Though human lives like summer grain | I |
| Were sown on every battle plain | I |
| Blood of our bravest and our best | D |
| The red red wine of life was pressed | D |
| And lost like summer rain | I |
| In dust and smoke of carnage whirled | D |
| Before those dying eyes still swam | S |
| Those coming years so grand and calm | T |
| The golden Autumns of the world | D |
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| Through frost and snow and wintry rains | B |
| Speed silent hours the Nation waits | B |
| While at her feet the slave in chains | B |
| Kneels listening for the coming fates | B |
| And round him droops in soil and dust | D |
| The bright flag of her stripes and stars | B |
| Speed Autumn hours we wait in trust | D |
| No tale of traitor lips can dim | U |
| Till Liberty's white hand unbars | B |
| The broad gates of the glad New Year | K |
| Unfurls our banner free and clear | K |
| And ushers Peace and Freedom in | I |
Kate Seymour Maclean
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