A Memory Of June Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH AIAI| When June comes dancing o'er the death of May | A |
| With scarlet roses tinting her green breast | B |
| And mating thrushes ushering in her day | A |
| And Earth on tiptoe for her golden guest | B |
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| I always see the evening when we met | C |
| The first of June baptized in tender rain | D |
| And walked home through the wide streets gleaming wet | C |
| Arms locked our warm flesh pulsing with love's pain | D |
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| I always see the cheerful little room | E |
| And in the corner fresh and white the bed | F |
| Sweet scented with a delicate perfume | E |
| Wherein for one night only we were wed | F |
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| Where in the starlit stillness we lay mute | G |
| And heard the whispering showers all night long | H |
| And your brown burning body was a lute | G |
| Whereon my passion played his fevered song | H |
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| When June comes dancing o'er the death of May | A |
| With scarlet roses staining her fair feet | I |
| My soul takes leave of me to sing all day | A |
| A love so fugitive and so complete | I |
Claude Mckay
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