Ode To Autumn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACCADEDEFGFFGHIH IHJKJKKLLKMNMINIINOO PKQRFRFRSRSSTRTTRRSQ SQI 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 |
Where are the songs of Summer With the sun | D |
Opening 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 noon day | F |
And tear with horny beak their lustrous eyes | G |
Where are the blooms of Summer In the west | H |
Blushing their last to the last sunny hours | I |
When the mild Eve by sudden Night is prest | H |
Like tearful Proserpine snatch'd from her flow'rs | I |
To a most gloomy breast | H |
Where is the pride of Summer the green prime | J |
The many many leaves all twinkling Three | K |
On the moss'd elm three on the naked lime | J |
Trembling and one upon the old oak tree | K |
Where is the Dryad's immortality | K |
Gone into mournful cypress and dark yew | L |
Or wearing the long gloomy Winter through | L |
In the smooth holly's green eternity | K |
The squirrel gloats on his accomplish'd hoard | M |
The ants have brimm'd their garners with ripe grain | N |
And honey been save stored | M |
The sweets of summer in their luscious cells | I |
The swallows all have wing'd across the main | N |
But here the Autumn melancholy dwells | I |
And sighs her tearful spells | I |
Amongst the sunless shadows of the plain | N |
Alone alone | O |
Upon a mossy stone | O |
She sits and reckons up the dead and gone | P |
With the last leaves for a love rosary | K |
Whilst all the wither'd world looks drearily | Q |
Like a dim picture of the drown d past | R |
In the hush'd mind's mysterious far away | F |
Doubtful what ghostly thing will steal the last | R |
Into that distance gray upon the gray | F |
O go and sit with her and be o'ershaded | R |
Under the languid downfall of her hair | S |
She wears a coronal of flowers faded | R |
Upon her forehead and a face of care | S |
There is enough of wither'd everywhere | S |
To make her bower and enough of gloom | T |
There is enough of sadness to invite | R |
If only for the rose that died whose doom | T |
Is Beauty's she that with the living bloom | T |
Of conscious cheeks most beautifies the light | R |
There is enough of sorrowing and quite | R |
Enough of bitter fruits the earth doth bear | S |
Enough of chilly droppings from her bowl | Q |
Enough of fear and shadowy despair | S |
To frame her cloudy prison for the soul | Q |
Thomas Hood
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