Autumn Etchings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDD E B FGHGIIIJKKJBB E B LBLBMBMBNBNBOPOPQQKK C B RSTJJUVUVWXWXVYYBB C A ZZA2B2B2A2C2C2A2D2D2 E2D2E2F2G2F2G2G2G2 C G2 BG2G2BG2H2G2G2H2I2H2 H2H2H2I2Morning | A |
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Her rain kissed face is fresh as rain | B |
Is cool and fresh as a rain wet leaf | C |
She glimmers at my window pane | B |
And all my grief | C |
Becomes a feeble rushlight seen no more | D |
When the gold of her gown sweeps in my door | D |
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II | E |
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Forenoon | B |
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Great blurs of woodland waved with wind | F |
Gray paths down which October came | G |
That now November's blasts have thinned | H |
And flecked with fiercer flame | G |
Are her delight She loves to lie | I |
Regarding with a gray blue eye | I |
The far off hills that hold the sky | I |
And I I lie and gaze with her | J |
Beyond the autumn woods and ways | K |
Into the hope of coming days | K |
The spring that nothing shall deter | J |
That puts my soul in unison | B |
With what's to do and what is done | B |
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III | E |
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Noon | B |
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Wild grapes that purple through | L |
Leaves that are golden | B |
Brush fires that pillar blue | L |
Woods that enfolden | B |
Deep in the haze of dreams | M |
In resignation | B |
Give themselves up it seems | M |
To divination | B |
Woods that ablaze with oak | N |
That the crow flew in | B |
Gaze through the brushwood smoke | N |
On their own ruin | B |
And on the countenance of Death who stalks | O |
Amid their miles | P |
While to himself he talks | O |
And smiles | P |
Where in their midst Noon sits and holds | Q |
Communion with their grays and golds | Q |
Transforming with her rays their golds and grays | K |
And in my heart the memories of dead days | K |
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IV | C |
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Afternoon | B |
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Wrought iron hues of blood and bronze | R |
Like some wild dawn's | S |
Make fierce each leafy spire | T |
Of blackberry brier | J |
Where through their thorny fire | J |
She goes the Afternoon from wood to wood | U |
From crest to oak crowned crest | V |
Of the high hill lands where the Morning stood | U |
With rosy ribboned breast | V |
Along the hills she takes the tangled path | W |
Unto the quiet close of day | X |
Musing on what a lovely death she hath | W |
The unearthly golden beryl far away | X |
Banding the gradual west | V |
Seen through cathedral columns of the pines | Y |
And minster naves of woodlands arched with vines | Y |
The golden couch spread of the setting sun | B |
For her to lie and me to gaze upon | B |
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V | C |
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Evening | A |
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The winds awake | Z |
And whispering shake | Z |
The aster flower whose doom is sealed | A2 |
The sumach bloom | B2 |
Bows down its plume | B2 |
And blossom Bayard of the field | A2 |
The chicory stout | C2 |
To the winds' wild rout | C2 |
Lifts up its ragged shield | A2 |
Low in the west the Evening shows | D2 |
A ridge of rose | D2 |
And stepping Earthward from the hills | E2 |
Where'er she goes | D2 |
The cricket wakes and all the silence spills | E2 |
With reed like music shaken from the weeds | F2 |
She takes my hand | G2 |
And leads | F2 |
Softly my soul into the Fairyland | G2 |
The wonder world of gold and chrysolite | G2 |
She builds there at the haunted edge of night | G2 |
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VI | C |
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Night | G2 |
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Autumn woods the winds tramp down | B |
Sowing acorns left and right | G2 |
Where in rainy raiment Night | G2 |
Tiptoes rustling wild her gown | B |
Dripping in the moon's pale light | G2 |
In the moonlight wan that hurries | H2 |
Trailing now a robe of cloud | G2 |
Now of glimmer ghostly browed | G2 |
Through the leaves whose wildness skurries | H2 |
And whose tatters swirl and swarm | I2 |
Round her in her stormy starkness | H2 |
She who takes my heart that leaps | H2 |
That exults and onward sweeps | H2 |
Like a red leaf in the darkness | H2 |
And the tumult of the storm | I2 |
Madison Julius Cawein
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