Vae Victis! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDD EFFEGGDD HIIHJJDD KLLKMMGG NOONPPQQ| Here in this isle | A |
| The summer still lingers | B |
| And Autumn's brown fingers | B |
| So busy the while | A |
| With the leaves in the north | C |
| Are scarcely put forth | C |
| In this land where the sun still glows like an ember | D |
| In mid November | D |
| - | |
| In England it's cold | E |
| And the yellow and red | F |
| Of October have fled | F |
| And the sun is wet gold | E |
| Like an emperor weeping | G |
| When Death goes a reaping | G |
| All through his empire merciless comer | D |
| The dead things of summer | D |
| - | |
| The sky has cried so | H |
| That the earth is all sodden | I |
| With dead leaves in trodden | I |
| And the trees to and fro | H |
| Wave their arms in the air | J |
| In despair in despair | J |
| They are thinking of all the hot days that are over | D |
| And the cows in the clover | D |
| - | |
| Here the roses are out | K |
| And the sun at high noon | L |
| Makes the birds faint and swoon | L |
| But the cricket's about | K |
| With his song and the hum | M |
| Of the bees as they come | M |
| To feast at the honey board laden and groaning | G |
| Makes musical droning | G |
| - | |
| But vainly alas | N |
| Do I hide in the south | O |
| Kiss close with my mouth | O |
| Red flowers green grass | N |
| For Autumn has found me | P |
| And thrown her arms around me | P |
| She has breathed on my lips and I wander apart | Q |
| Dead leaves in my heart | Q |
Lord Alfred Douglas
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