A November Sketch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFGE HIIH JKLJ MNNM OPPO QRRQ STTS UVVU UWWU QQQQ MWWMThe hoar frost hisses 'neath the feet | A |
And the worm fence's straggling length | B |
Smote by the morning's slanted strength | B |
Sparkles one rib of virgin sleet | A |
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To withered fields the crisp breeze talks | C |
And silently and sadly lifts | D |
The bronz'd leaves from the beech and drifts | D |
Them wadded down the woodland walks | C |
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Reluctantly and one by one | E |
The worthless leaves sift slowly down | F |
And thro' the mournful vistas blown | G |
Drop rustling and their rest is won | E |
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Where stands the brook beneath its fall | H |
Thin scaled with ice the pool is bound | I |
And on the pebbles scattered 'round | I |
The ooze is frozen one and all | H |
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White as rare crystals shining fair | J |
There stirs no life the faded wood | K |
Mourns sighing and the solitude | L |
Seems shaken with a mighty care | J |
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Decay and silence sadly drape | M |
The vigorous limbs of oldest trees | N |
The rotting leaves and rocks whose knees | N |
Are shagged with moss with misty crape | M |
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To sullenness the surly crow | O |
All his derisive feeling yields | P |
And o'er the barren stubble fields | P |
Flaps cawless wrapped in hungry woe | O |
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The eve comes on the teasel stoops | Q |
Its spike crowned head before the blast | R |
The tattered leaves drive whirling past | R |
Like skeletons in whistling troops | Q |
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The pithy elder copses sigh | S |
Their broad blue combs with berries weighed | T |
Like heavy pendulums are swayed | T |
With ev'ry gust that hurries by | S |
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Thro' matted walls of tangled brier | U |
That hedge the lane the sumachs thrust | V |
Their scarlet torches red as rust | V |
Burning with flames of stolid fire | U |
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The evening's here cold hard and drear | U |
The lavish West with bullion bright | W |
Of molten silver walls the night | W |
Far as one star's thin rays appear | U |
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Wedged toward the West's cold luridness | Q |
The wild geese fly 'neath roseless domes | Q |
The wild cry of the leader comes | Q |
Distant and harsh with loneliness | Q |
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The pale West dies and in its cup | M |
Bubble on bubble pours the night | W |
The East glows with a mystic light | W |
The stars are keen the moon is up | M |
Madison Julius Cawein
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