June Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBABCDCE FGGFGHIHI JKKJLMNMN OPPOPQRQR STTSTHUHV PMMPMWXWX MYYMYZA2ZA2 B2C2C2D2C2ME2ME2 F2GGG2GA2H2A2H2

Long long ago it seems this summer mornA
That pale browed April passed with pensive treadB
Through the frore woods and from its frost bound bedB
Woke the arbutus with her silver hornA
And now May too is fledB
The flower crowned month the merry laughing MayC
With rosy feet and fingers dewy wetD
Leaving the woods and all cool gardens gayC
With tulips and the scented violetE
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Gone are the wind flower and the adder tongueF
And the sad drooping bellwort and no moreG
The snowy trilliums crowd the forest's floorG
The purpling grasses are no longer youngF
And summer's wide set doorG
O'er the thronged hills and the broad panting earthH
Lets in the torrent of the later bloomI
Haytime and harvest and the after mirthH
The slow soft rain the rushing thunder plumeI
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All day in garden alleys moist and dimJ
The humid air is burdened with the roseK
In moss deep woods the creamy orchid blowsK
And now the vesper sparrows' pealing hymnJ
From every orchard closeL
At eve comes flooding rich and silveryM
The daisies in great meadows swing and shineN
And with the wind a sound as of the seaM
Roars in the maples and the topmost pineN
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High in the hills the solitary thrushO
Tunes magically his music of fine dreamsP
In briary dells by boulder broken streamsP
And wide and far on nebulous fields aflushO
The mellow morning gleamsP
The orange cone flowers purple bossed are thereQ
The meadow's bold eyed gypsies deep of hueR
And slender hawkweed tall and softly fairQ
And rosy tops of fleabane veiled with dewR
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So with thronged voices and unhasting flightS
The fervid hours with long return go byT
The far heard hylas piping shrill and highT
Tell the slow moments of the solemn nightS
With unremitting cryT
Lustrous and large out of the gathering drouthH
The planets gleam the baleful ScorpionU
Trails his dim fires along the droused southH
The silent world incrusted round moves onV
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And all the dim night long the moon's white beamsP
Nestle deep down in every brooding treeM
And sleeping birds touched with a silly gleeM
Waken at midnight from their blissful dreamsP
And carol brokenlyM
Dim surging motions and uneasy dreadsW
Scare the light slumber from men's busy eyesX
And parted lovers on their restless bedsW
Toss and yearn out and cannot sleep for sighsX
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Oft have I striven sweet month to figure theeM
As dreamers of old time were wont to feignY
In living form of flesh and striven in vainY
Yet when some sudden old world mysteryM
Of passion fired my brainY
Thy shape hath flashed upon me like no dreamZ
Wandering with scented curls that heaped the breezeA2
Or by the hollow of some reeded streamZ
Sitting waist deep in white anemonesA2
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And even as I glimpsed thee thou wert goneB2
A dream for mortal eyes too proudly coyC2
Yet in thy place for subtle thought's employC2
The golden magic clung a light that shoneD2
And filled me with thy joyC2
Before me like a mist that streamed and fellM
All names and shapes of antique beauty passedE2
In garlanded procession with the swellM
Of flutes between the beechen stems and lastE2
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I saw the Arcadian valley the loved woodF2
Alpheus stream divine the sighing shoreG
And through the cool green glades awake once moreG
Psyche the white limbed goddess still pursuedG2
Fleet footed as of yoreG
The noonday ringing with her frighted pealsA2
Down the bright sward and through the reeds she ranH2
Urged by the mountain echoes at her heelsA2
The hot blown cheeks and trampling feet of PanH2

Archibald Lampman



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