Summer In Auvergne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCB DDDEFFFE GGGHIIIH JJJKLLLK MMMNOOON PPPAQQQAThe 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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