The Death Of Autumn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DCCD EEEE FEEF GHIG JKKJ DLLD EEEE BMMB NEEN OEEO BLLB EDPE QHHQ

Discrowned and desolateA
And wandering with dim eyes and faded hairB
Singing sad songs to comfort her despairB
Grey Autumn meets her fateC
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Forsaken and aloneD
She haunts the ruins of her queenly stateC
Like banished Eve at Eden's flaming gateC
Making perpetual moanD
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Crazed with her grief she movesE
Along the banks of the frost charmed rillsE
And all the hollows of the wooded hillsE
Searching for her lost lovesE
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From verdurous base to copeF
The sunny hill sides and sweet pasture landsE
Where bubbling brooks reach ever dimpled handsE
Along the amber slopeF
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And valleys drowsed betweenG
In the rich purple of the vintage timeH
When cups of gold that drop with fragrant wineI
From orchard branches leanG
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And far beyond them spreadJ
Broad fields thick set with sheaves of yellow wheatK
Where scarlet poppies slumberously sweetK
Glow with a dusky redJ
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To the remotest zoneD
Of hazy woodland pencilled on the skyL
On whose far spires the clouds of sunset lieL
She held her regal throneD
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Queen of a princely raceE
Whose ministers were all the elementsE
Sunshine and rain and dew she did dispenseE
With a right royal graceE
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Now not a breath of airB
Nor sunbeam nor the voice of beast or birdM
Stirring the lonely woods hath any wordM
To comfort her despairB
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Insidious day by dayN
A smouldering flame a lurid crimson creepsE
Into the ashy whiteness of her cheeksE
And burns her life awayN
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The cavernous woods are dumbO
Through their oracular depths and secret nooksE
To the mute supplication of her looksE
No mystic voices comeO
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And through the still grey airB
The night comes down and hangs her lamp on highL
Like a wan lily blossomed on the skyL
Shining so ghostly fairB
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Or looming up the heightsE
Those awful spectres of the frozen zoneD
Splinter the crystal of heaven's sapphire domeP
With arrowy glancing lightsE
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The while hoarse night winds raveQ
The old year looking backward to his primeH
With dim fond eyes down the last steps of timeH
Goes maundering to his graveQ

Kate Seymour Maclean



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