Autumn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACCA DEDEFGFCG CHCHCIJIJJKKJ CLCHLHHLMMNJOCFCF CPCPPQCQQCCPOPOI saw old Autumn in the misty morn | A |
Stand shadowless like Silence listening | B |
To silence for no lonely bird would sing | B |
Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn | A |
Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn | A |
Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright | C |
With tangled gossamer that fell by night | C |
Pearling his coronet of golden corn | A |
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Where are the songs of Summer With the sun | D |
Oping the dusky eyelids of the south | E |
Till shade and silence waken up as one | D |
And Morning sings with a warm odorous mouth | E |
Where are the merry birds Away away | F |
On panting wings through the inclement skies | G |
Lest owls should prey | F |
Undazzled at noonday | C |
And tear with horny beak their lustrous eyes | G |
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Where are the blooms of Summer In the west | C |
Blushing their last to the last sunny hours | H |
When the mild Eve by sudden Night is prest | C |
Like tearful Proserpine snatch'd from her flow'rs | H |
To a most gloomy breast | C |
Where is the pride of Summer the green prime | I |
The many many leaves all twinkling Three | J |
On the moss'd elm three on the naked lime | I |
Trembling and one upon the old oak tree | J |
Where is the Dryad's immortality | J |
Gone into mournful cypress and dark yew | K |
Or wearing the long gloomy Winter through | K |
In the smooth holly's green eternity | J |
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The squirrel gloats on his accomplish'd hoard | C |
The ants have brimm'd their garners with ripe grain | L |
And honey bees have stored | C |
The sweets of Summer in their luscious cells | H |
The swallows all have wing'd across the main | L |
But here the Autumn melancholy dwells | H |
And sighs her tearful spells | H |
Amongst the sunless shadows of the plain | L |
Alone alone | M |
Upon a mossy stone | M |
She sits and reckons up the dead and gone | N |
With the last leaves for a love rosary | J |
Whilst all the wither'd world looks drearily | O |
Like a dim picture of the drown egrave d past | C |
In the hush'd mind's mysterious far away | F |
Doubtful what ghostly thing will steal the last | C |
Into that distance gray upon the gray | F |
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O go and sit with her and be o'ershaded | C |
Under the languid downfall of her hair | P |
She wears a coronal of flowers faded | C |
Upon her forehead and a face of care | P |
There is enough of wither'd everywhere | P |
To make her bower and enough of gloom | Q |
There is enough of sadness to invite | C |
If only for the rose that died whose doom | Q |
Is Beauty's she that with the living bloom | Q |
Of conscious cheeks most beautifies the light | C |
There is enough of sorrowing and quite | C |
Enough of bitter fruits the earth doth bear | P |
Enough of chilly droppings for her bowl | O |
Enough of fear and shadowy despair | P |
To frame her cloudy prison for the soul | O |
Thomas Hood
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