A November Sketch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFGE HIIH JKLJ MNNM OPPO QRRQ STTS UVVU UWWU QQQQ MWWM

The hoar frost hisses 'neath the feetA
And the worm fence's straggling lengthB
Smote by the morning's slanted strengthB
Sparkles one rib of virgin sleetA
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To withered fields the crisp breeze talksC
And silently and sadly liftsD
The bronz'd leaves from the beech and driftsD
Them wadded down the woodland walksC
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Reluctantly and one by oneE
The worthless leaves sift slowly downF
And thro' the mournful vistas blownG
Drop rustling and their rest is wonE
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Where stands the brook beneath its fallH
Thin scaled with ice the pool is boundI
And on the pebbles scattered 'roundI
The ooze is frozen one and allH
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White as rare crystals shining fairJ
There stirs no life the faded woodK
Mourns sighing and the solitudeL
Seems shaken with a mighty careJ
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Decay and silence sadly drapeM
The vigorous limbs of oldest treesN
The rotting leaves and rocks whose kneesN
Are shagged with moss with misty crapeM
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To sullenness the surly crowO
All his derisive feeling yieldsP
And o'er the barren stubble fieldsP
Flaps cawless wrapped in hungry woeO
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The eve comes on the teasel stoopsQ
Its spike crowned head before the blastR
The tattered leaves drive whirling pastR
Like skeletons in whistling troopsQ
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The pithy elder copses sighS
Their broad blue combs with berries weighedT
Like heavy pendulums are swayedT
With ev'ry gust that hurries byS
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Thro' matted walls of tangled brierU
That hedge the lane the sumachs thrustV
Their scarlet torches red as rustV
Burning with flames of stolid fireU
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The evening's here cold hard and drearU
The lavish West with bullion brightW
Of molten silver walls the nightW
Far as one star's thin rays appearU
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Wedged toward the West's cold luridnessQ
The wild geese fly 'neath roseless domesQ
The wild cry of the leader comesQ
Distant and harsh with lonelinessQ
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The pale West dies and in its cupM
Bubble on bubble pours the nightW
The East glows with a mystic lightW
The stars are keen the moon is upM

Madison Julius Cawein



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