Autumn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH ICIC JEJE HGHG KLKL MNON PCPC QRQR| Alas with swift and silent pace | A |
| Impatient time rolls on the year | B |
| The Seasons change and Nature's face | A |
| Now sweetly smiles now frowns severe | B |
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| 'Twas Spring 'twas Summer all was gay | C |
| Now Autumn bends a cloudy brow | D |
| The flowers of Spring are swept away | C |
| And Summer fruits desert the bough | D |
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| The verdant leaves that play'd on high | E |
| And wanton'd on the western breeze | F |
| Now trod in dust neglected lie | E |
| As Boreas strips the bending trees | F |
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| The fields that waved with golden grain | G |
| As russet heaths are wild and bare | H |
| Not moist with dew but drench'd in rain | G |
| Nor health nor pleasure wanders there | H |
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| No more while through the midnight shade | I |
| Beneath the moon's pale orb I stray | C |
| Soft pleasing woes my heart invade | I |
| As Progne pours the melting lay | C |
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| From this capricious clime she soars | J |
| O would some god but wings supply | E |
| To where each morn the Spring restores | J |
| Companion of her flight I'd try | E |
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| Vain wish me fate compels to bear | H |
| The downward season's iron reign | G |
| Compels to breathe the polluted air | H |
| And shiver on a blasted plain | G |
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| What bliss to life can Autumn yield | K |
| If glooms and showers and storms prevail | L |
| And Ceres flies the naked field | K |
| And flowers and fruits and Phoebus fail | L |
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| Oh what remains what lingers yet | M |
| To cheer me in the darkening hour | N |
| The grape remains the friend of wit | O |
| In love and mirth of mighty power | N |
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| Haste press the clusters fill the bowl | P |
| Apollo shoot thy parting ray | C |
| This gives the sunshine of the soul | P |
| This god of health and verse and day | C |
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| Still still the jocund train shall flow | Q |
| The pulse with vigorous rapture beat | R |
| My Stella with new charms shall glow | Q |
| And every bliss in wine shall meet | R |
Samuel Johnson
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About Autumn
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