Ode To Autumn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACDEAF CCCCGAHGHA ICICCACCAC CACACJCCCJThou sombre lady of down bended head | A |
And weary lashes drooping to the cheek | B |
With sweet sad fold of lips uncomforted | A |
And listless hands more tired with strife than meek | B |
Turn here thy soft brown feet and to my heart | A |
Unmatched to Summer's golden minstrelsy | C |
Or Spring's shrill pipe of joy sing once again | D |
Sad songs and I to thee | E |
Well tuned will answer that according part | A |
That jarred with those young seasons' gladder strain | F |
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Give me thy empty branches for the biers | C |
Of perished joys thy winds to sigh my sighs | C |
Thy falling leaves to count my falling tears | C |
And all thy mists to dim my aching eyes | C |
There is no comfort in thy lips and none | G |
In thy cold arms nor pity in thy breast | A |
But better 'tis in gray hours to have grief | H |
Than to affront the sun | G |
With sunless woe when every flower and leaf | H |
Conspires to make the season merriest | A |
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The drip of rain drops on the sodden earth | I |
The trampled mud stained grass the shifting leaves | C |
The silent hurrying birds the sickly birth | I |
Of the red sun in misty skies the sheaves | C |
Of rotting ruined corn the sudden gusts | C |
Of angry winds the clouds that fly all night | A |
Before the stormy moon thy desolate moans | C |
All thy decays and rusts | C |
Thy deaths and dirges these are tuned aright | A |
To my unquiet soul that sorrow owns | C |
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But ah thy gentler mood the honeyed kiss | C |
Of thy faint watery sunshine thy pale gold | A |
Thy dark red berries and the ambergris | C |
That paints the lingering leaves while on the mould | A |
Their dead make bronze and sepia carpetings | C |
That lightly rustle in thy quiet breath | J |
These are the shadows of departed smiles | C |
The ghosts of happy things | C |
These break again the broken heart the whiles | C |
Thou goest onto winter I to Death | J |
Lord Alfred Douglas
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