Autumn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBABCDDCD EFFEFGHHGH IJJIKLFFLF MNNMNGOOGO| Thou burden of all songs the earth hath sung | A |
| Thou retrospect in Time's reverted eyes | B |
| Thou metaphor of everything that dies | B |
| That dies ill starred or dies beloved and young | A |
| And therefore blest and wise | B |
| O be less beautiful or be less brief | C |
| Thou tragic splendour strange and full of fear | D |
| In vain her pageant shall the Summer rear | D |
| At thy mute signal leaf by golden leaf | C |
| Crumbles the gorgeous year | D |
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| Ah ghostly as remembered mirth the tale | E |
| Of Summer's bloom the legend of the Spring | F |
| And thou too flutterest an impatient wing | F |
| Thou presence yet more fugitive and frail | E |
| Thou most unbodied thing | F |
| Whose very being is thy going hence | G |
| And passage and departure all thy theme | H |
| Whose life doth still a splendid dying seem | H |
| And thou at height of thy magnificence | G |
| A figment and a dream | H |
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| Stilled is the virgin rapture that was June | I |
| And cold is August's panting heart of fire | J |
| And in the storm dismantled forest choir | J |
| For thine own elegy thy winds attune | I |
| Their wild and wizard lyre | K |
| And poignant grows the charm of thy decay | L |
| The pathos of thy beauty and the sting | F |
| Thou parable of greatness vanishing | F |
| For me thy woods of gold and skies of grey | L |
| With speech fantastic ring | F |
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| For me to dreams resigned there come and go | M |
| 'Twixt mountains draped and hooded night and morn | N |
| Elusive notes in wandering wafture borne | N |
| From undiscoverable lips that blow | M |
| An immaterial horn | N |
| And spectral seem thy winter boding trees | G |
| Thy ruinous bowers and drifted foliage wet | O |
| Past and Future in sad bridal met | O |
| O voice of everything that perishes | G |
| And soul of all regret | O |
William Watson
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