A Midsummer Holiday:- Viii. The Sunbows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBABAABABBABAABAB BABABABA| Spray of song that springs in April light of love that laughs through May | A |
| Live and die and live for ever nought of all thing far less fair | B |
| Keeps a surer life than these that seem to pass like fire away | A |
| In the souls they live which are but all the brighter that they were | C |
| In the hearts that kindle thinking what delight of old was there | B |
| Wind that shapes and lifts and shifts them bids perpetual memory play | A |
| Over dreams and in and out of deeds and thoughts which seem to wear | B |
| Light that leaps and runs and revels through the springing flames of spray | A |
| Dawn is wild upon the waters where we drink of dawn to day | A |
| Wide from wave to wave rekindling in rebound through radiant air | B |
| Flash the fires unwoven and woven again of wind that works in play | A |
| Working wonders more than heart may note or sight may wellnigh dare | B |
| Wefts of rarer light than colours rain from heaven though this be rare | B |
| Arch on arch unbuilt in building reared and ruined ray by ray | A |
| Breaks and brightens laughs and lessens even till eyes may hardly bear | B |
| Light that leaps and runs and revels through the springing flames of spray | A |
| Year on year sheds light and music rolled and flashed from bay to bay | A |
| Round the summer capes of time and winter headlands keen and bare | B |
| Whence the soul keeps watch and bids her vassal memory watch and pray | A |
| If perchance the dawn may quicken or perchance the midnight spare | B |
| Silence quells not music darkness takes not sunlight in her snare | B |
| Shall not joys endure that perish Yea saith dawn though night say nay | A |
| Life on life goes out but very life enkindles everywhere | B |
| Light that leaps and runs and revels through the springing flames of spray | A |
| Friend were life no more than this is well would yet the living fare | B |
| All aflower and all afire and all flung heavenward who shall say | A |
| Such a flash of life were worthless This is worth a world of care | B |
| Light that leaps and runs and revels through the springing flames of spray | A |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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