A Summer Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH EJEJ BDBD KLLL MEME NLNL ENEN ONON PLPL QRQR NLNL RQRQ NLNL NENE LNLN NLNL NFNF NNNN SLSL LLLL NTNT RERE LLLL RLRL NRNR UVUV ELEL| O perfect Light which shaid away | A |
| The darkness from the light | B |
| And set a ruler o'er the day | A |
| Another o'er the night | B |
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| Thy glory when the day forth flies | C |
| More vively doth appear | D |
| Than at mid day unto our eyes | C |
| The shining sun is clear | D |
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| The shadow of the earth anon | E |
| Removes and drawis by | F |
| While in the East when it is gone | E |
| Appears a clearer sky | F |
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| Which soon perceive the little larks | G |
| The lapwing and the snipe | H |
| And tune their songs like Nature's clerks | I |
| O'er meadow muir and stripe | H |
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| Our hemisphere is polisht clean | E |
| And lighten'd more and more | J |
| While everything is clearly seen | E |
| Which seemit dim before | J |
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| Except the glistering astres bright | B |
| Which all the night were clear | D |
| Offuskit with a greater light | B |
| No longer do appear | D |
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| The golden globe incontinent | K |
| Sets up his shining head | L |
| And o'er the earth and firmament | L |
| Displays his beams abread | L |
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| For joy the birds with boulden throats | M |
| Against his visage sheen | E |
| Take up their kindly musick notes | M |
| In woods and gardens green | E |
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| The dew upon the tender crops | N |
| Like pearlis white and round | L |
| Or like to melted silver drops | N |
| Refreshis all the ground | L |
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| The misty reek the clouds of rain | E |
| From tops of mountains skails | N |
| Clear are the highest hills and plain | E |
| The vapours take the vales | N |
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| The ample heaven of fabrick sure | O |
| In cleanness does surpass | N |
| The crystal and the silver pure | O |
| Or clearest polisht glass | N |
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| The time so tranquil is and still | P |
| That nowhere shall ye find | L |
| Save on a high and barren hill | P |
| An air of peeping wind | L |
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| All trees and simples great and small | Q |
| That balmy leaf do bear | R |
| Than they were painted on a wall | Q |
| No more they move or steir | R |
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| Calm is the deep and purple sea | N |
| Yea smoother than the sand | L |
| The waves that weltering wont to be | N |
| Are stable like the land | L |
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| So silent is the cessile air | R |
| That every cry and call | Q |
| The hills and dales and forest fair | R |
| Again repeats them all | Q |
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| The flourishes and fragrant flowers | N |
| Through Phoebus' fostering heat | L |
| Refresht with dew and silver showers | N |
| Cast up an odour sweet | L |
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| The cloggit busy humming bees | N |
| That never think to drone | E |
| On flowers and flourishes of trees | N |
| Collect their liquor brown | E |
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| The Sun most like a speedy post | L |
| With ardent course ascends | N |
| The beauty of the heavenly host | L |
| Up to our zenith tends | N |
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| The burning beams down from his face | N |
| So fervently can beat | L |
| That man and beast now seek a place | N |
| To save them from the heat | L |
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| The herds beneath some leafy tree | N |
| Amidst the flowers they lie | F |
| The stable ships upon the sea | N |
| Tend up their sails to dry | F |
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| With gilded eyes and open wings | N |
| The cock his courage shows | N |
| With claps of joy his breast he dings | N |
| And twenty times he crows | N |
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| The dove with whistling wings so blue | S |
| The winds can fast collect | L |
| Her purple pens turn many a hue | S |
| Against the sun direct | L |
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| Now noon is went gone is midday | L |
| The heat doth slake at last | L |
| The sun descends down West away | L |
| For three of clock is past | L |
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| The rayons of the sun we see | N |
| Diminish in their strength | T |
| The shade of every tower and tree | N |
| Extendit is in length | T |
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| Great is the calm for everywhere | R |
| The wind is setting down | E |
| The reek throws right up in the air | R |
| From every tower and town | E |
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| The gloming comes the day is spent | L |
| The sun goes out of sight | L |
| And painted is the occident | L |
| With purple sanguine bright | L |
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| Our west horizon circular | R |
| From time the sun be set | L |
| Is all with rubies as it were | R |
| Or roses red o'erfret | L |
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| What pleasure were to walk and see | N |
| Endlong a river clear | R |
| The perfect form of every tree | N |
| Within the deep appear | R |
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| O then it were a seemly thing | U |
| While all is still and calm | V |
| The praise of God to play and sing | U |
| With cornet and with shalm | V |
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| All labourers draw home at even | E |
| And can to other say | L |
| Thanks to the gracious God of heaven | E |
| Which sent this summer day | L |
Alexander Hume
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