Autumn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHIH BJBJKLKL MNMNODOD NBPBQBQB BHBHRSRS BTBUBVBV| Autumn thy rushing blast | A |
| Sweeps in wild eddies by | B |
| Whirling the sear leaves past | A |
| Beneath my feet to die | B |
| Nature her requiem sings | C |
| In many a plaintive tone | D |
| As to the wind she flings | C |
| Sad music all her own | D |
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| The murmur of the rill | E |
| Is hoarse and sullen now | F |
| And the voice of joy is still | E |
| In grove and leafy bough | F |
| There's not a single wreath | G |
| Of all Spring's thousand flowers | H |
| To strew her bier in death | I |
| Or deck her faded bowers | H |
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| I hear a spirit sigh | B |
| Where the meeting pines resound | J |
| Which tells me all must die | B |
| As the leaf dies on the ground | J |
| The brightest hopes we cherish | K |
| Which own a mortal trust | L |
| But bloom awhile to perish | K |
| And moulder in the dust | L |
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| Sweep on thou rushing wind | M |
| Thou art music to mine ear | N |
| Awakening in my mind | M |
| A voice I love to hear | N |
| The branches o'er my head | O |
| Send forth a tender moan | D |
| Like the wail above the dead | O |
| Is that sad and solemn tone | D |
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| Though all things perish here | N |
| The spirit cannot die | B |
| It owns a brighter sphere | P |
| A home in yon fair sky | B |
| The soul will flee away | Q |
| And when the silent clod | B |
| Enfolds my mouldering clay | Q |
| Shall live again with God | B |
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| Where Autumn's chilly blast | B |
| Shall never strip the bowers | H |
| Or icy Winter cast | B |
| A blight upon the flowers | H |
| But Spring in all her bloom | R |
| For ever flourish there | S |
| And the children of the tomb | R |
| Forget this world of care | S |
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| The children who have passed | B |
| Death's tideless ocean o'er | T |
| And Hope's blest anchor cast | B |
| On that bright eternal shore | U |
| Who sought through Him who bled | B |
| Their erring race to save | V |
| A Sun whose beams shall shed | B |
| A light upon the grave | V |
Susanna Moodie
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