Merry Autumn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EBEB FGFG HDHD IJIJ KKKK DLDL KJKJ MBMB| It's all a farce these tales they tell | A |
| About the breezes sighing | B |
| And moans astir o'er field and dell | A |
| Because the year is dying | B |
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| Such principles are most absurd | C |
| I care not who first taught 'em | D |
| There's nothing known to beast or bird | C |
| To make a solemn autumn | D |
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| In solemn times when grief holds sway | E |
| With countenance distressing | B |
| You'll note the more of black and gray | E |
| Will then be used in dressing | B |
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| Now purple tints are all around | F |
| The sky is blue and mellow | G |
| And e'en the grasses turn the ground | F |
| From modest green to yellow | G |
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| The seed burrs all with laughter crack | H |
| On featherweed and jimson | D |
| And leaves that should be dressed in black | H |
| Are all decked out in crimson | D |
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| A butterfly goes winging by | I |
| A singing bird comes after | J |
| And Nature all from earth to sky | I |
| Is bubbling o'er with laughter | J |
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| The ripples wimple on the rills | K |
| Like sparkling little lasses | K |
| The sunlight runs along the hills | K |
| And laughs among the grasses | K |
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| The earth is just so full of fun | D |
| It really can't contain it | L |
| And streams of mirth so freely run | D |
| The heavens seem to rain it | L |
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| Don't talk to me of solemn days | K |
| In autumn's time of splendor | J |
| Because the sun shows fewer rays | K |
| And these grow slant and slender | J |
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| Why it's the climax of the year | M |
| The highest time of living | B |
| Till naturally its bursting cheer | M |
| Just melts into thanksgiving | B |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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