When Summer's End Is Nighing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBB DECEE CFGFF HICII JKLMM NOPOO AOOOO| When summer's end is nighing | A |
| And skies at evening cloud | B |
| I muse on change and fortune | C |
| And all the feats I vowed | B |
| When I was young and proud | B |
| - | |
| The weathercock at sunset | D |
| Would lose the slanted ray | E |
| And I would climb the beacon | C |
| That looked to Wales away | E |
| And saw the last of day | E |
| - | |
| From hill and cloud and heaven | C |
| The hues of evening died | F |
| Night welled through lane and hollow | G |
| And hushed the countryside | F |
| But I had youth and pride | F |
| - | |
| And I with earth and nightfall | H |
| In converse high would stand | I |
| Late till the west was ashen | C |
| And darkness hard at hand | I |
| And the eye lost the land | I |
| - | |
| The year might age and cloudy | J |
| The lessening day might close | K |
| But air of other summers | L |
| Breathed from beyond the snows | M |
| And I had hope of those | M |
| - | |
| They came and were and are not | N |
| And come no more anew | O |
| And all the years and seasons | P |
| That ever can ensue | O |
| Must now be worse and few | O |
| - | |
| So here's an end of roaming | A |
| On eves when autumn nighs | O |
| The ear too fondly listens | O |
| For summer's parting sighs | O |
| And then the heart replies | O |
Alfred Edward Housman
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