By The Annisquam Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAB AAAC DDDB DDDC DDDB EEEC DDDB DDD EEEB DDDC FFFB GGGA Far bell tinkles in the hollow | A |
And heart and soul are fain to follow | A |
Gone is the rose and gone the swallow | A |
Autumn is here | B |
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The wild geese draw at dusk their harrow | A |
Above the 'Squam the ebb leaves narrow | A |
The sea winds chill you to the marrow | A |
Sad goes the year | C |
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Among the woods the crows are calling | D |
The acorns and the leaves are falling | D |
At sea the fishing boats are trawling | D |
Autumn is here | B |
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The jay among the rocks is screaming | D |
And every way with crimson streaming | D |
Far up the shore the foam is creaming | D |
Sleep fills the Year | C |
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The chipmunk on the stones is barking | D |
The red leaf every path is marking | D |
Where hills lean to the ocean harking | D |
Autumn is here | B |
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The fields are starry with the aster | E |
Where Beauty dreams and dim Disaster | E |
Draws near through mists that gather faster | E |
Farewell sweet Year | C |
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Beside the coves driftwood is burning | D |
And far at sea white sails are turning | D |
Each day seems filled with deeper yearning | D |
Autumn is here | B |
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'Good bye good bye ' the Summer's saying | D |
'Brief was my day as songs of Maying | D |
The time is come for psalms and praying | D |
Good bye sweet Year ' | - |
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Brown bend the ferns by rock and boulder | E |
The shore seems greyer ocean older | E |
The days are misty nights are colder | E |
Autumn is here | B |
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The cricket in the grass is crying | D |
And sad winds in the old woods sighing | D |
They seem to say 'Sweet Summer's dying | D |
Weep for the Year | C |
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'She's wreathed her hair with bay and berry | F |
And o'er dark pools the wild fowl ferry | F |
Leans dreaming 'neath the wilding cherry | F |
Autumn is here | B |
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'Good bye good bye to Summer's gladness | G |
To all her beauty mirth and madness | G |
Come sit with us and dream in sadness | G |
So ends the Year ' | - |
Madison Julius Cawein
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