The Death Of Autumn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DCCD EEEE FEEF GHIG JKKJ DLLD EEEE BMMB NEEN OEEO BLLB EDPE QHHQDiscrowned and desolate | A |
And wandering with dim eyes and faded hair | B |
Singing sad songs to comfort her despair | B |
Grey Autumn meets her fate | C |
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Forsaken and alone | D |
She haunts the ruins of her queenly state | C |
Like banished Eve at Eden's flaming gate | C |
Making perpetual moan | D |
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Crazed with her grief she moves | E |
Along the banks of the frost charmed rills | E |
And all the hollows of the wooded hills | E |
Searching for her lost loves | E |
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From verdurous base to cope | F |
The sunny hill sides and sweet pasture lands | E |
Where bubbling brooks reach ever dimpled hands | E |
Along the amber slope | F |
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And valleys drowsed between | G |
In the rich purple of the vintage time | H |
When cups of gold that drop with fragrant wine | I |
From orchard branches lean | G |
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And far beyond them spread | J |
Broad fields thick set with sheaves of yellow wheat | K |
Where scarlet poppies slumberously sweet | K |
Glow with a dusky red | J |
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To the remotest zone | D |
Of hazy woodland pencilled on the sky | L |
On whose far spires the clouds of sunset lie | L |
She held her regal throne | D |
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Queen of a princely race | E |
Whose ministers were all the elements | E |
Sunshine and rain and dew she did dispense | E |
With a right royal grace | E |
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Now not a breath of air | B |
Nor sunbeam nor the voice of beast or bird | M |
Stirring the lonely woods hath any word | M |
To comfort her despair | B |
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Insidious day by day | N |
A smouldering flame a lurid crimson creeps | E |
Into the ashy whiteness of her cheeks | E |
And burns her life away | N |
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The cavernous woods are dumb | O |
Through their oracular depths and secret nooks | E |
To the mute supplication of her looks | E |
No mystic voices come | O |
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And through the still grey air | B |
The night comes down and hangs her lamp on high | L |
Like a wan lily blossomed on the sky | L |
Shining so ghostly fair | B |
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Or looming up the heights | E |
Those awful spectres of the frozen zone | D |
Splinter the crystal of heaven's sapphire dome | P |
With arrowy glancing lights | E |
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The while hoarse night winds rave | Q |
The old year looking backward to his prime | H |
With dim fond eyes down the last steps of time | H |
Goes maundering to his grave | Q |
Kate Seymour Maclean
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