By An Autumn Fire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCAADDAEFFFE ECCAADDAA DGAAAG| Now at our casement the wind is shrilling | A |
| Poignant and keen | B |
| And all the great boughs of the pines between | B |
| It is harping a lone and hungering strain | C |
| To the eldritch weeping of the rain | C |
| And then to the wild wet valley flying | A |
| It is seeking sighing | A |
| Something lost in the summer olden | D |
| When night was silver and day was golden | D |
| But out on the shore the waves are moaning | A |
| With ancient and never fulfilled desire | E |
| And the spirits of all the empty spaces | F |
| Of all the dark and haunted places | F |
| With the rain and the wind on their death white faces | F |
| Come to the lure of our leaping fire | E |
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| But we bar them out with this rose red splendor | E |
| From our blithe domain | C |
| And drown the whimper of wind and rain | C |
| With undaunted laughter echoing long | A |
| Cheery old tale and gay old song | A |
| Ours is the joyance of ripe fruition | D |
| Attained ambition | D |
| Ours is the treasure of tested loving | A |
| Friendship that needs no further proving | A |
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| No more of springtime hopes sweet and uncertain | D |
| Here we have largess of summer in fee | G |
| Pile high the logs till the flame be leaping | A |
| At bay the chill of the autumn keeping | A |
| While pilgrim wise we may go a reaping | A |
| In the fairest meadow of memory | G |
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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