Mid-august Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCBDDC BDDBBEEB FDDGFDDG HBBIHBBI DJJKDKKK IKKIIDDI KDDDKDDD HKKDHIID DKKDDDDD HIIKHKKK| From 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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