Autumn Winds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE DGHGIJGJ KLMLGGAG MNMNAGOG HPHQRSTS MGDGUSDS KVDVADMD| Oh Autumn winds what means this plaintive wailing | A |
| Around the quiet homestead where we dwell | B |
| Whence come ye say and what the story mournful | C |
| That your weird voices ever seek to tell | B |
| Whispering or clamoring beneath the casements | D |
| Rising in shriek or dying off in moan | E |
| But ever breathing menace fear or anguish | F |
| In every thrilling and unearthly tone | E |
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| We come from far off and from storm tossed oceans | D |
| Where vessels bravely battle with fierce gale | G |
| Mere playthings of our stormy restless power | H |
| We rend them quickly shuddering mast and sail | G |
| And with their stalwart gallant crews we hurl them | I |
| Amid the hungry waves that for them wait | J |
| Nor leave one floating spar nor fragile taffrail | G |
| To tell unto the world their dreary fate | J |
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| But He who holds you wrathful winds of Autumn | K |
| Within the hollow of His mighty hand | L |
| Can stay your onward course of reckless fury | M |
| Your demon wrath or eerie sport command | L |
| Changing your rudest blast to zephyr gentle | G |
| As rocks the rose in summer evenings still | G |
| Calming the ocean and yourselves enchaining | A |
| By simple fiat of Almighty Will | G |
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| We ve been too in the close and crowded city | M |
| Where want is often forced to herd with sin | N |
| And our cold breath has pierced through without pity | M |
| Bare ruined hovel and worn garments thin | N |
| Through narrow chink and broken window pouring | A |
| Draughts rife with fever and with deadly chill | G |
| Choosing our victims mid old age and childhood | O |
| Or tender fragile infancy at will | G |
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| Oh Autumn blasts He whose kind care doth temper | H |
| The searching wind unto the small shorn lamb | P |
| To those poor shiv ring victims too can render | H |
| Thy keenest sharpest blasts both mild and calm | Q |
| Rave on rave on around our happy homestead | R |
| Upon this dark and wild November night | S |
| Ye do but work out your God given mission | T |
| Mere humble creatures of our Father s might | S |
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| But listen we come too from graveyards lonely | M |
| From mocking revels held mid tombstones tall | G |
| Tearing the withered leaves from off the branches | D |
| The clinging ivy from the time stained wall | G |
| Uprooting blighting every tiny leaflet | U |
| That hid the grave s bleak nakedness from sight | S |
| Driving the leaves in hideous death like dances | D |
| Around the lowly mounds the grave stones white | S |
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| And what of that ye cruel winds of Autumn | K |
| Spring will return again with hope and mirth | V |
| Clothing with tender green the budding branches | D |
| Decking with snowdrops violets the earth | V |
| And oh sweet hope sublime and most consoling | A |
| The sacred dust within those graves shall rise | D |
| In God s good time to reign on thrones of glory | M |
| With Him beyond the cloudless golden skies | D |
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
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