Mid-august Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCBDDC BDDBBEEB FDDGFDDG HBBIHBBI DJJKDKKK IKKIIDDI KDDDKDDD HKKDHIID DKKDDDDD HIIKHKKKFrom the upland hidden | A |
Where the hill is sunny | B |
Tawny like pure honey | B |
In the August heat | C |
Memories float unbidden | B |
Where the thicket serries | D |
Fragrant with ripe berries | D |
And the milk weed sweet | C |
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Like a prayer mat holy | B |
Are the patterned mosses | D |
Which the twin flower crosses | D |
With her flowerless vine | B |
In fragile melancholy | B |
The pallid ghost flowers hover | E |
As if to guard and cover | E |
The shadow of a shrine | B |
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Where the pine linnet lingered | F |
The pale water searches | D |
The roots of gleaming birches | D |
Draw silver from the lake | G |
The ripples liquid fingered | F |
Plucking the root layers | D |
Fairy like lute players | D |
Lulling music make | G |
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O to lie here brooding | H |
Where the pine tree column | B |
Rises dark and solemn | B |
To the airy lair | I |
Where the day eluding | H |
Night is couched dream laden | B |
Like a deep witch maiden | B |
Hidden in her hair | I |
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In filmy evanescence | D |
Wraithlike scents assemble | J |
Then dissolve and tremble | J |
A little until they die | K |
Spirits of the florescence | D |
Where the bees searched and tarried | K |
Till the blossoms all were married | K |
In the days before July | K |
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Light has lost its splendour | I |
Light refined and sifted | K |
Cool light and dream drifted | K |
Ventures even where | I |
Seeping silver tender | I |
In the dim recesses | D |
Trembling mid her tresses | D |
Hides the maiden hair | I |
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Covered with the shy light | K |
Filling in the hushes | D |
Slide the tawny thrushes | D |
Calling to their broods | D |
Hoarding till the twilight | K |
The song that made for noon days | D |
Of the amorous June days | D |
Preludes and interludes | D |
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The joy that I am feeling | H |
Is there something in it | K |
Unlike the warble the linnet | K |
Phrases and intones | D |
Or is a like thought stealing | H |
With a rapture fine free | I |
Through the happy pine tree | I |
Ripening her cones | D |
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In some high existence | D |
In another planet | K |
Where their poets cannot | K |
Know our birds and flowers | D |
Does the same persistence | D |
Give the dreams they issue | D |
Something like the tissue | D |
Of these dreams of ours | D |
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O to lie athinking | H |
Moods and whims I fancy | I |
Only necromancy | I |
Could the web unroll | K |
Only somehow linking | H |
Beauties that meet and mingle | K |
In this quiet dingle | K |
With the beauty of the whole | K |
Duncan Campbell Scott
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