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 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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