Indian Summer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDEFDGDGHDG BBIJIJJKJKLJK BBMNMNNO PQRPQRNSONTUNO| After completing a book for one now dead | A |
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| O Earth and Autumn of the Setting Sun | B |
| She is not by to know my task is done | B |
| In the brown grasses slanting with the wind | C |
| Lone as a lad whose dog's no longer near | D |
| Lone as a mother whose only child has sinned | E |
| Lone on the loved hill and below me here | F |
| The thistle down in tremulous atmosphere | D |
| Along red clusters of the sumach streams | G |
| The shrivelled stalks of golden rod are sere | D |
| And crisp and white their flashing old racemes | G |
| forever forever forever | H |
| This is the lonely season of the year | D |
| This is the season of our lonely dreams | G |
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| O Earth and Autumn of the Setting Sun | B |
| She is not by to know my task is done | B |
| The corn shocks westward on the stubble plain | I |
| Show like an Indian village of dead days | J |
| The long smoke trails behind the crawling train | I |
| And floats atop the distant woods ablaze | J |
| With orange crimson purple The low haze | J |
| Dims the scarped bluffs above the inland sea | K |
| Whose wide and slaty waters in cold glaze | J |
| Await yon full moon of the night to be | K |
| far and far and far | L |
| These are the solemn horizons of man's ways | J |
| These are the horizons of solemn thought to me | K |
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| O Earth and Autumn of the Setting Sun | B |
| She is not by to know my task is done | B |
| And this the hill she visited as friend | M |
| And this the hill she lingered on as bride | N |
| Down in the yellow valley is the end | M |
| They laid her in no evening autumn tide | N |
| Under fresh flowers of that May morn beside | N |
| The queens and cave women of ancient earth | O |
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| This is the hill and over my city's towers | P |
| Across the world from sunset yonder in air | Q |
| Shines through its scaffoldings a civic dome | R |
| Of pil egrave d masonry which shall be ours | P |
| To give completed to our children there | Q |
| And yonder far roof of my abandoned home | R |
| Shall house new laughter Yet I tried I tried | N |
| And ever wistful of the doom to come | S |
| I built her many a fire for love for mirth | O |
| When snows were falling on our oaks outside | N |
| Dear many a winter fire upon the hearth | T |
| farewell farewell farewell | U |
| We dare not think too long on those who died | N |
| While still so many yet must come to birth | O |
William Ellery Leonard
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