In an Autumn Wild
In an Autumn Wild
I dip my fingers into
A bushel of leaves
Leaves that have
Fallen, for skin too
Heavy with beauty
Their quiet faces
Solemn, gallant as
Their mother tree
Lets go, her children
Growing colder, their
Warmth too bright
For a mother old
For a mother cold
Who sighs, weeps
For love she cannot
Give, wound up in her
Bark imprisoned
By the cold, by
The ceaseless rain, by
An earthen voice
That tells her "sleep"
Though her love for
Her colors burns, they
Fade, those many
Glorious Children
Who in winter's embrace
Do die
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Submitted on March 15, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAX XAB XXB CXX DDX XXX EEX XXX BCXE |
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 502 |
Words | 98 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4 |
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