Alfred Edward Housman

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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 nighingA
And skies at evening cloudB
I muse on change and fortuneC
And all the feats I vowedB
When I was young and proudB
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The weathercock at sunsetD
Would lose the slanted rayE
And I would climb the beaconC
That looked to Wales awayE
And saw the last of dayE
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From hill and cloud and heavenC
The hues of evening diedF
Night welled through lane and hollowG
And hushed the countrysideF
But I had youth and prideF
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And I with earth and nightfallH
In converse high would standI
Late till the west was ashenC
And darkness hard at handI
And the eye lost the landI
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The year might age and cloudyJ
The lessening day might closeK
But air of other summersL
Breathed from beyond the snowsM
And I had hope of thoseM
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They came and were and are notN
And come no more anewO
And all the years and seasonsP
That ever can ensueO
Must now be worse and fewO
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So here's an end of roamingA
On eves when autumn nighsO
The ear too fondly listensO
For summer's parting sighsO
And then the heart repliesO

Alfred Edward Housman



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