October Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDECDE FGFGHIJHIJ KLKLHMHHMH HNHNOCPOCP

I oft have met her slowly wanderingA
Beside a leafy stream her locks blown wildB
Her cheeks a hectic flush more fair than SpringA
As if on her the sumach copse had smiledB
Or I have seen her sitting tall and brownC
Her gentle eyes with foolish weeping dimD
Beneath a twisted oak from whose red leavesE
She wound great drowsy wreaths and cast them downC
The west wind in her hair that made it swimD
Far out behind deep as the rustling sheavesE
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Or in the hill lands I have often seenF
The marvel of her passage glimpses faintG
Of glimmering woods that glanced the hills betweenF
Like Indian faces fierce with forest paintG
Or I have met her 'twixt two beechen hillsH
Within a dingled valley near a fallI
Held in her nut brown hand one cardinal flowerJ
Or wading dimly where the leaf dammed rillsH
Went babbling through the wildwood's arrased hallI
Where burned the beech and maples glared their powerJ
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Or I have met her by some ruined millK
Where trailed the crimson creeper serpentineL
On fallen leaves that stirred and rustled chillK
And watched her swinging in the wild grape vineL
While Beauty sad among the vales and mountainsH
More sad than death or all that death can teachM
Dreamed of decay and stretched appealing armsH
Where splashed the murmur of the forest's fountainsH
With all her loveliness did she beseechM
And all the sorrow of her wildwood charmsH
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Once only in a hollow girt with treesH
A dream amid wild asters filled with rainN
I glimpsed her cheeks red berried by the breezeH
In her dark eyes the night's sidereal stainN
And once upon an orchard's tangled pathO
Where all the golden rod had turned to brownC
Where russets rolled and leaves were sweet of breathP
I have beheld her 'mid her aftermathO
Of blossoms standing in her gypsy gownC
Within her gaze the deeps of life and deathP

Madison Julius Cawein



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