November Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGG HHIIHHJJ KKHHL L CCGGHMNOPQQR AASSTTUULLHHGGVVWWXX HH LLHHTTGGYYHH ZZA2A2B2B2R B2B2C2C2ZZD2E2AA| As I walk the misty hill | A |
| All is languid fogged and still | A |
| Not a note of any bird | B |
| Nor any motion's hint is heard | B |
| Save from soaking thickets round | C |
| Trickle or water's rushing sound | C |
| And from ghostly trees the drip | D |
| Of runnel dews or whispering slip | D |
| Of leaves which in a body launch | E |
| Listlessly from the stagnant branch | F |
| To strew the marl already strown | G |
| With litter sodden as its own | G |
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| A rheum like blight hangs on the briars | H |
| And from the clammy ground suspires | H |
| A sweet frail sick autumnal scent | I |
| Of stale frost furring weeds long spent | I |
| And wafted on like one who sleeps | H |
| A feeble vapour hangs or creeps | H |
| Exhaling on the fungus mould | J |
| A breath of age fatigue and cold | J |
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| Oozed from the bracken's desolate track | K |
| By dark rains havocked and drenched black | K |
| A fog about the coppice drifts | H |
| Or slowly thickens up and lifts | H |
| Into the moist despondent air | L |
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| Mist grief and stillness everywhere | L |
| - | |
| And in me too there is no sound | C |
| Save welling as of tears profound | C |
| Where in me cloud grief stillness reign | G |
| And an intolerable pain | G |
| Begins | H |
| Rolled on as in a flood there come | M |
| Memories of childhood boyhood home | N |
| And that which sudden pangs me most | O |
| Thought of the first belov'd long lost | P |
| Too easy lost My cold lips frame | Q |
| Tremulously the familiar name | Q |
| Unheard of her upon my breath | R |
| 'Elizabeth Elizabeth ' | - |
| - | |
| No voice answers on the hill | A |
| All is shrouded sad and still | A |
| Stillness fogged brakes and fog on high | S |
| Only in me the waters cry | S |
| Who mourn the hours now slipped for ever | T |
| Hours of boding joy and fever | T |
| When we loved by chance beguiled | U |
| I a boy and you a child | U |
| Child but with an angel's air | L |
| Astonished eager unaware | L |
| Or elfin's wandering with a grace | H |
| Foreign to any fireside race | H |
| And with a gaiety unknown | G |
| In the light feet and hair backblown | G |
| And with a sadness yet more strange | V |
| In meagre cheeks which knew to change | V |
| Or faint or fired more swift than sight | W |
| And forlorn hands and lips pressed white | W |
| And fragile voice and head downcast | X |
| Hiding tears lifted at the last | X |
| To speed with one pale smile the wise | H |
| Glance of the grey immortal eyes | H |
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| How strange it was that we should dare | L |
| Compound a miracle so rare | L |
| As 'twixt this pace and Time's next pace | H |
| Each to discern th' elected's face | H |
| Yet stranger that the high sweet fire | T |
| In hearts nigh foreign to desire | T |
| Could burn sigh weep and burn again | G |
| As oh it never has since then | G |
| Most strange of all that we so young | Y |
| Dared learn but would not speak love's tongue | Y |
| Love pledged but in the reveries | H |
| Of our sad and dreaming eyes | H |
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| Now upon such journey bound me | Z |
| Grief disquiet and stillness round me | Z |
| As bids me where I cannot tell | A2 |
| Turn I and sigh unseen farewell | A2 |
| Breathe the name as soft as mist | B2 |
| Lips which nor kissed her nor were kissed | B2 |
| And again a sigh a death | R |
| 'Elizabeth Elizabeth ' | - |
| - | |
| No voice answers but the mist | B2 |
| Glows for a moment amethyst | B2 |
| Ere the hid sun dissolves away | C2 |
| And dimness growing dimmer grey | C2 |
| Hides all till nothing can I see | Z |
| But the blind walls enclosing me | Z |
| And no sound and no motion hear | D2 |
| But the vague water throbbing near | E2 |
| Sole voice upon the darkening hill | A |
| Where all is blank and dead and still | A |
Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols
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