November Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGG HHIIHHJJ KKHHL L CCGGHMNOPQQR AASSTTUULLHHGGVVWWXX HH LLHHTTGGYYHH ZZA2A2B2B2R B2B2C2C2ZZD2E2AAAs 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 |
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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 ' | - |
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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 ' | - |
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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 Nichols
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