A June-tide Echo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBB C CD BEBE FBFB GHGH IJIJ KLML NONO| After a Richter Concert | A |
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| In the long sad time when the sky was grey | B |
| And the keen blast blew through the city drear | B |
| When delight had fled from the night and the day | B |
| My chill heart whispered ' June will be here | B |
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| ' June with its roses a sway in the sun | C |
| Its glory of green on mead and tree ' | - |
| Lo now the sweet June tide is nearly done | C |
| June tide and never a joy for me | D |
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| Is it so much of the gods that I pray | B |
| Sure craved man never so slight a boon | E |
| To be glad and glad in my heart one day | B |
| One perfect day of the perfect June | E |
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| Sweet sounds to night rose up wave upon wave | F |
| Sweet dreams were afloat in the balmy air | B |
| This is the boon of the gods that I crave | F |
| To be glad as the music and night were fair | B |
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| For once for one fleeting hour to hold | G |
| The fair shape the music that rose and fell | H |
| Revealed and concealed like a veiling fold | G |
| To catch for an instant the sweet June spell | H |
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| For once for one hour to catch and keep | I |
| The sweet June secret that mocks my heart | J |
| Now lurking calm like a thing asleep | I |
| Now hither and thither with start and dart | J |
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| Then the sick slow grief of the weary years | K |
| The slow sick grief and the sudden pain | L |
| The long days of labour the nights of tears | M |
| No more these things would I hold in vain | L |
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| I would hold my life as a thing of worth | N |
| Pour praise to the gods for a precious thing | O |
| Lo June in her fairness is on earth | N |
| And never a joy does the niggard bring | O |
Amy Levy
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