Autumn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH ICIC JEJE HGHG KLKL MNON PCPC QRQRAlas 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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