Summer In Auvergne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCB DDDEFFFE GGGHIIIH JJJKLLLK MMMNOOON PPPAQQQA| The sundawn fills the land | A |
| Full as a feaster's hand | A |
| Fills full with bloom of bland | A |
| Bright wine his cup | B |
| Flows full to flood that fills | C |
| From the arch of air it thrills | C |
| Those rust red iron hills | C |
| With morning up | B |
| - | |
| Dawn as a panther springs | D |
| With fierce and fire fledged wings | D |
| Leaps on the land that rings | D |
| From her bright feet | E |
| Through all its lava black | F |
| Cones that cast answer back | F |
| And cliffs of footless track | F |
| Where thunders meet | E |
| - | |
| The light speaks wide and loud | G |
| From deeps blown clean of cloud | G |
| As though day's heart were proud | G |
| And heaven's were glad | H |
| The towers brown striped and grey | I |
| Take fire from heaven of day | I |
| As though the prayers they pray | I |
| Their answers had | H |
| - | |
| Higher in these high first hours | J |
| Wax all the keen church towers | J |
| And higher all hearts of ours | J |
| Than the old hills' crown | K |
| Higher than the pillared height | L |
| Of that strange cliff side bright | L |
| With basalt towers whose might | L |
| Strong time bows down | K |
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| And the old fierce ruin there | M |
| Of the old wild princes' lair | M |
| Whose blood in mine hath share | M |
| Gapes gaunt and great | N |
| Toward heaven that long ago | O |
| Watched all the wan land's woe | O |
| Whereon the wind would blow | O |
| Of their bleak hate | N |
| - | |
| Dead are those deeds but yet | P |
| Their memory seems to fret | P |
| Lands that might else forget | P |
| That old world's brand | A |
| Dead all their sins and days | Q |
| Yet in this red clime's rays | Q |
| Some fiery memory stays | Q |
| That sears their land | A |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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