An Autumn Mood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCACBDEBDFGGFBABHIJ IJIHEKJEBLKMAFJNNCAC OPPQNPQNQFPRRBASBSST BBUBVFSTSBBWAUSBPSBX BXLPLPPPPPBFBPRSSSBR FVPFYAAYPZPYSZA2ZLBR RLPB2SWLRRWSSSSBBBLS MMMSBFPSBPBBPile the pyre light the fire there is fuel enough and to spare | A |
You have fire enough and to spare with your madness and gladness | B |
Burn the old year it is dead and dead and done | C |
There is something under the sun that I cannot bear | A |
I cannot bear this sadness under the sun | C |
I cannot bear this sun upon all this sadness | B |
Here on this prophecy here on this leafless log | D |
Log upon log and leafless on leafless I sit | E |
Yes Beauty I see thee yes I see but I will not rejoice | B |
Down down wild heart down down thou hungry dog | D |
That dost but leap and gaze with a want thou canst not utter | F |
Down down I know the ill but where is the cure | G |
Moor and stubble and mist stubble and mist and moor | G |
Here on the turf that will feel the snows a vanishing flutter | F |
Of bells that are ringing farewells | B |
And overhead from a branch that will soon be bare | A |
Is it a falling leaf that disturbs my blood like a voice | B |
Or is it an autumn bird that answers the evening light | H |
The evening light on stubble and moor and mist | I |
And pallid woods and the pale sweet hamlets of dying men | J |
Oh autumn bird I also will speak as I list | I |
Oh woods oh fields oh trees oh hill and glen | J |
You who have seen my glory you who wist | I |
How I have walked the mornings of delight | H |
Myself a morning summer'd through and lit | E |
With light and summer as the sunny dew | K |
With sun you saw me then | J |
You see me now oh hear my heart and answer it | E |
Where is the Nevermore and the land of the Yesterdays | B |
Aye | L |
Where are Youth and Joy the dew and the honey dew | K |
The day of the rose and the night of the nightingale | M |
Where | A |
Where are the sights and the sounds that shall ne'er and shall e'er | F |
Come again | J |
Once more I have cried my cry once more in vain | N |
I have listen'd once more for a moment the ancient pain | N |
Is less though I know that the year is dead and done | C |
Once more I bear | A |
Under the sun the sadness over the sadness the sun | C |
Bear I have borne I shall bear But what is a man | O |
That his soul should be seen and heard in the trees and flow'rs of the field | P |
Have I tinctured them mortal or doth their mortality yield | P |
Me like a fragrance of autumn Ah passion of Eve | Q |
Ah Eve of my passion which is it that aches to complain | N |
Oh old old Minstrelsy oh wafty winds of Romaunt | P |
Blow me your harps My sick soul cannot weave | Q |
These gossamers of feeling that remain | N |
To any string whereon its ill may grieve | Q |
Blow me your harps harp wind harp dulcimer | F |
Citerne bataunt | P |
And mandolin and each string'd woe | R |
Of the sweet olden world and let them blow | R |
By me as in sea streams the sea gods see | B |
The streaming streaming hair | A |
Of drown d girls and every sorrowy sin | S |
O' the sea | B |
And so let them blow out the din | S |
Of daylight and blow in | S |
With legendary song | T |
Of buried maids | B |
The evening shades | B |
And when the thronging harps and all | U |
The murmurings of wild wind harps | B |
Are still | V |
And shimmer of dim dulcimer | F |
And thrill of trill'd citerne | S |
And plaint of quaint bataunt and throb of long | T |
Long silent mandolin | S |
And every other sound that grieves | B |
Hath dropt into its colour on the leaves | B |
In the silence let me hear | W |
The round and heavy tear | A |
Of orchards fall | U |
And as I listen let the air unseen | S |
Be stirr'd with words | B |
Let the ripe husk of what is gape open and shed | P |
What has been | S |
Through click of gates and the games | B |
Of the living village at play | X |
Let me hear forgotten names | B |
Of ancient day | X |
Down like a drop of rain from the evening sky | L |
Let somewhat be said | P |
Up from the pool like a bubble let something reply | L |
In the tongue of the dead | P |
Through the swallows that fly their last | P |
Round the grey spire of the past | P |
In the faded elms by the height | P |
Let the last hour of light | P |
Strike and the yellow chimes | B |
Forget and remember | F |
A dream of other times | B |
And above let the rocks be warm with the mystical day that is not | P |
To day or to morrow | R |
And from the nest in the rock let me hear the croon | S |
Of orphan doves that yearn | S |
For the wings that will never return | S |
And below the rocks on the grassy slopes and scarps | B |
Let the tender flowering flame of the exquisite crocus of sorrow | R |
Sadden the green of the grass to the pathos of gentle September | F |
And below the slopes and scarps where the strangled rill | V |
Blackens to rot | P |
Let the unrest of the troublous hour | F |
Blossom on through the night and the running flow'r | Y |
O' the fatuous fire flicker and flicker and flare | A |
Through the aimless dark of disaster the aimless light of despair | A |
And meantime let the serious evening star | Y |
Contemplative enlarge her slow pale brow'd | P |
Regard until she shake | Z |
With tears and sudden snatch a hasty cloud | P |
To hide whate'er in those pure realms afar | Y |
Is likest human sadness and full soon | S |
Let night begin to slake | Z |
The west and many headed darkness peer | A2 |
From every copse and brake | Z |
While from a cottage nigh | L |
Where the poor candle of dull Poverty | B |
May barely serve to show | R |
Her stony privilege of woe | R |
Or if like her it try | L |
To leave the cabin'd precincts of its lot | P |
Steals trembling forth to struggle and expire | B2 |
A milkless babe that shall not see the morn | S |
Starves to the fretted ear | W |
With lullaby and lullaby | L |
And rocking shadow to and fro | R |
Athwart the lattice low | R |
And from yon western ridge black as the bier | W |
Of day let a faint far off horn | S |
Mourning across the ravish'd fields forlorn | S |
Sound like a streak of sunset seen through the grief of the moon | S |
And further yet from the slant of the seaward plain | S |
The bleating and lowing of many voic d flocks and herds | B |
Forced from their fields mix on the morning breeze | B |
With sob of seas | B |
Till the long rising wind be high | L |
And from the distant main | S |
A gale sweep up the vale and on the gale a wail | M |
Of shipwreck fill and fail | M |
Fail and fill fill and fail like a sinking sinking sail | M |
In the rain | S |
But ere all this to us let the dim smoke rise | B |
To us from the nearest field from the nearest pyre | F |
Of stubbled corn let the dim smoke rise and let | P |
The fire that loosens the stubble corn | S |
Loose the soul like smoke and let tears in the eyes | B |
Confuse the passionate sense till the heart forget | P |
Whether we be the world or whether the fading world be | B |
We | B |
Sydney Thompson Dobell
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