In Anticipation Of Autumn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBCBCC DEDFFGFGG HIHIIJKJJ LMLMMFMFF JNJNNONOP QCQCCRCRR| But now the Summer hastens to its close | A |
| And soon will Song a different aspect wear | B |
| Sweeping terrific clad in ghostly snows | C |
| And lit by the flash of the Boreal glare | B |
| Or but a poet in his easy chair | B |
| And her most pleasing aspect now beguiles | C |
| What time is hers with deft endearing air | B |
| With gorgeous gold she decks her garments whiles | C |
| Her melancholy face with Indian Summer smiles | C |
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| Thy very smile sends sadness to my heart | D |
| Farewell sweet love the happy hour is o'er | E |
| Too well I knew that we again must part | D |
| Her garments trail the fond reluctant floor | F |
| But I shall ne'er forget the dress she wore | F |
| Her looks her words the pleasing song she sung | G |
| 'Tis melody will charm me more and more | F |
| 'Tis music that will keep my spirit young | G |
| 'Tis joyance in my soul though jarring on my tongue | G |
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| I've hummed the music after thee as well | H |
| As changing tones of youth allowed and fear | I |
| And vexing sprites that choke the upward swell | H |
| But yet perchance some bosom it may cheer | I |
| By recollection making thee more dear | I |
| To those who've drunk thy music at its spring | J |
| To some mayhap who never learned to hear | K |
| Alas poor wretched souls its sound may bring | J |
| Some semblance of thy strain some wish to hear thee sing | J |
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| What though I have expounded nothing new | L |
| And traced I trow unworthily the old | M |
| Song is no mystic science Men may do | L |
| Strange things in other spheres and may unfold | M |
| Secrets unthought tell tales before untold | M |
| But what thou wilt the bard nor less nor more | F |
| And to the mind informed in Nature's mould | M |
| Thou has revealed thyself the same of yore | F |
| The same to day thou art and shalt be evermore | F |
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| Let them who will content themselves to sing | J |
| In trifling pageantry and gilt array | N |
| To pluck the song beads from the shimmering string | J |
| That skirts thy robe But such my soul doth sway | N |
| As makes me hang upon thy breast and say | N |
| I love thee as a mistress then mine own | O |
| Blindly and recklessly some future day | N |
| Mine eye from thine clearer and stronger grown | O |
| May thrid the straggling stars and search the deepening dawn | P |
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| O make my soul an argosy of song | Q |
| Tranquilly floating on a sea of peace | C |
| As with her rowers beautiful and strong | Q |
| Some trireme bears among the Isles of Greece | C |
| With music muffled oars Give safe release | C |
| From murky moorings storms and rocks that jar | R |
| And let its pearls in purity increase | C |
| Until with singing sails it cross the bar | R |
| To melt in golden waves with gems of many a star | R |
W. M. Mackeracher
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