The Opal Month Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIH FFJFFJ| Now cometh October a nut brown maid | A |
| Who in robes of crimson and gold arrayed | A |
| Hath taken the king's highway | B |
| On the world she smiles but to me it seems | C |
| Her eyes are misty with mid summer dreams | C |
| Or memories of the May | B |
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| Opals agleam in the dusk of her hair | D |
| Flash their hearts of fire and colours rare | D |
| As she dances gaily by | E |
| Yet she sighs for each empty swinging nest | F |
| And she tenderly holds against her breast | F |
| A belated butterfly | E |
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| The crickets sing no more to the stars | G |
| The spiders no more put up silver bars | G |
| To entangle silken wings | H |
| But the quail pipes low in the rusted corn | I |
| And here and there both at night and at morn | I |
| A lonely robin still sings | H |
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| A spice laden breeze of the south is blent | F |
| With perfumed winds from the Orient | F |
| And they weave o'er her a spell | J |
| For nun like she goeth now still and sweet | F |
| And while mists like incense curl at her feet | F |
| She lingers her beads to tell | J |
Virna Sheard
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