Ode To Autumn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABACDEAF CCCCGAHGHA ICICCACCAC CACACJCCCJ

Thou sombre lady of down bended headA
And weary lashes drooping to the cheekB
With sweet sad fold of lips uncomfortedA
And listless hands more tired with strife than meekB
Turn here thy soft brown feet and to my heartA
Unmatched to Summer's golden minstrelsyC
Or Spring's shrill pipe of joy sing once againD
Sad songs and I to theeE
Well tuned will answer that according partA
That jarred with those young seasons' gladder strainF
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Give me thy empty branches for the biersC
Of perished joys thy winds to sigh my sighsC
Thy falling leaves to count my falling tearsC
And all thy mists to dim my aching eyesC
There is no comfort in thy lips and noneG
In thy cold arms nor pity in thy breastA
But better 'tis in gray hours to have griefH
Than to affront the sunG
With sunless woe when every flower and leafH
Conspires to make the season merriestA
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The drip of rain drops on the sodden earthI
The trampled mud stained grass the shifting leavesC
The silent hurrying birds the sickly birthI
Of the red sun in misty skies the sheavesC
Of rotting ruined corn the sudden gustsC
Of angry winds the clouds that fly all nightA
Before the stormy moon thy desolate moansC
All thy decays and rustsC
Thy deaths and dirges these are tuned arightA
To my unquiet soul that sorrow ownsC
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But ah thy gentler mood the honeyed kissC
Of thy faint watery sunshine thy pale goldA
Thy dark red berries and the ambergrisC
That paints the lingering leaves while on the mouldA
Their dead make bronze and sepia carpetingsC
That lightly rustle in thy quiet breathJ
These are the shadows of departed smilesC
The ghosts of happy thingsC
These break again the broken heart the whilesC
Thou goest onto winter I to DeathJ

Lord Alfred Douglas



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