Ballade Of Summer's Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABABBCBC ABABBCBC D BCBC| Sweet summer is gone they have laid her away | A |
| The last sad hours that were touched with her grace | B |
| In the hush where the ghosts of the dead flowers play | A |
| The sleep that is sweet of her slumbering space | B |
| Let not a sight or a sound erase | B |
| Of the woe that hath fallen on all the lands | C |
| Gather ye dreams to her sunny face | B |
| Shadow her head with your golden hands | C |
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| The woods that are golden and red for a day | A |
| Girdle the hills in a jewelled case | B |
| Like a girl's strange mirth ere the quick death slay | A |
| The beautiful life that he hath in chase | B |
| Darker and darker the shadows pace | B |
| Out of the north to the southern sands | C |
| Ushers bearing the winter's mace | B |
| Keep them away with your woven hands | C |
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| The yellow light lies on the wide wastes gray | A |
| More bitter and cold than the winds that race | B |
| From the skirts of the autumn tearing away | A |
| This way and that way the woodland lace | B |
| In the autumn's cheek is a hectic trace | B |
| Behind her the ghost of the winter stands | C |
| Sweet summer will moan in her soft gray place | B |
| Mantle her head with your glowing hands | C |
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| Envoi | D |
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| Till the slayer be slain and the spring displace | B |
| The might of his arms with her rose crowned bands | C |
| Let her heart not gather a dream that is base | B |
| Shadow her head with your golden hands | C |
Archibald Lampman
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