November Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGG HHIIHHJJ KKHHL L CCGGHMNOPQQR AASSTTUULLHHGGVVWWXX HH LLHHTTGGYYHH ZZA2A2B2B2R B2B2C2C2ZZD2E2AA

As I walk the misty hillA
All is languid fogged and stillA
Not a note of any birdB
Nor any motion's hint is heardB
Save from soaking thickets roundC
Trickle or water's rushing soundC
And from ghostly trees the dripD
Of runnel dews or whispering slipD
Of leaves which in a body launchE
Listlessly from the stagnant branchF
To strew the marl already strownG
With litter sodden as its ownG
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A rheum like blight hangs on the briarsH
And from the clammy ground suspiresH
A sweet frail sick autumnal scentI
Of stale frost furring weeds long spentI
And wafted on like one who sleepsH
A feeble vapour hangs or creepsH
Exhaling on the fungus mouldJ
A breath of age fatigue and coldJ
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Oozed from the bracken's desolate trackK
By dark rains havocked and drenched blackK
A fog about the coppice driftsH
Or slowly thickens up and liftsH
Into the moist despondent airL
-
Mist grief and stillness everywhereL
-
And in me too there is no soundC
Save welling as of tears profoundC
Where in me cloud grief stillness reignG
And an intolerable painG
BeginsH
Rolled on as in a flood there comeM
Memories of childhood boyhood homeN
And that which sudden pangs me mostO
Thought of the first belov'd long lostP
Too easy lost My cold lips frameQ
Tremulously the familiar nameQ
Unheard of her upon my breathR
'Elizabeth Elizabeth '-
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No voice answers on the hillA
All is shrouded sad and stillA
Stillness fogged brakes and fog on highS
Only in me the waters cryS
Who mourn the hours now slipped for everT
Hours of boding joy and feverT
When we loved by chance beguiledU
I a boy and you a childU
Child but with an angel's airL
Astonished eager unawareL
Or elfin's wandering with a graceH
Foreign to any fireside raceH
And with a gaiety unknownG
In the light feet and hair backblownG
And with a sadness yet more strangeV
In meagre cheeks which knew to changeV
Or faint or fired more swift than sightW
And forlorn hands and lips pressed whiteW
And fragile voice and head downcastX
Hiding tears lifted at the lastX
To speed with one pale smile the wiseH
Glance of the grey immortal eyesH
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How strange it was that we should dareL
Compound a miracle so rareL
As 'twixt this pace and Time's next paceH
Each to discern th' elected's faceH
Yet stranger that the high sweet fireT
In hearts nigh foreign to desireT
Could burn sigh weep and burn againG
As oh it never has since thenG
Most strange of all that we so youngY
Dared learn but would not speak love's tongueY
Love pledged but in the reveriesH
Of our sad and dreaming eyesH
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Now upon such journey bound meZ
Grief disquiet and stillness round meZ
As bids me where I cannot tellA2
Turn I and sigh unseen farewellA2
Breathe the name as soft as mistB2
Lips which nor kissed her nor were kissedB2
And again a sigh a deathR
'Elizabeth Elizabeth '-
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No voice answers but the mistB2
Glows for a moment amethystB2
Ere the hid sun dissolves awayC2
And dimness growing dimmer greyC2
Hides all till nothing can I seeZ
But the blind walls enclosing meZ
And no sound and no motion hearD2
But the vague water throbbing nearE2
Sole voice upon the darkening hillA
Where all is blank and dead and stillA

Robert Nichols



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