I See The Boys Of Summer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDEF GGHIJK LLMNOI PPQRST A UUVWXY BBZGZA2 PB2C2D2FE2 GGF2G2GH2 A BBI2J2K2L2I | A |
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I see the boys of summer in their ruin | B |
Lay the gold tithings barren | B |
Setting no store by harvest freeze the soils | C |
Theire in their heat the winter floods | D |
Of frozen loves they fetch their girls | E |
And drown the cargoed apples in their tides | F |
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These boys of light are curdlers in their folly | G |
Sour the boiling honey | G |
The jacks of frost they finger in the hives | H |
There in the sun the frigid threads | I |
Of doubt and dark they feed their nerves | J |
The signal moon is zero in their voids | K |
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I see the summer children in their mothers | L |
Split up the brawned womb's weathers | L |
Divide the night and day with fairy thumbs | M |
There in the deep with quartered shades | N |
Of sun and moon they paint their dams | O |
As sunlight paints the shelling of their heads | I |
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I see that from these boys shall men of nothing | P |
Stature by seedy shifting | P |
Or lame the air with leaping from its hearts | Q |
There from their hearts the dogdayed pulse | R |
Of love and light bursts in their throats | S |
O see the pulse of summer in the ice | T |
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II | A |
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But seasons must be challenged or they totter | U |
Into a chiming quarter | U |
Where punctual as death we ring the stars | V |
There in his night the black tongued bells | W |
The sleepy man of winter pulls | X |
Nor blows back moon and midnight as she blows | Y |
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We are the dark deniers let us summon | B |
Death from a summer woman | B |
A muscling life from lovers in their cramp | Z |
From the fair dead who flush the sea | G |
The bright eyed worm on Davy's lamp | Z |
And from the planted womb the man of straw | A2 |
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We summer boys in this four winded spinning | P |
Green of the seaweed's iron | B2 |
Hold up the noisy sea and drop her birds | C2 |
Pick the world's ball of wave and froth | D2 |
To choke the deserts with her tides | F |
And comb the county gardens for a wreath | E2 |
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In spring we cross our foreheads with the holly | G |
Heigh ho the blood and berry | G |
And nail the merry squires to the trees | F2 |
Here love's damp muscle dries and dies | G2 |
Here break a kiss in no love's quarry | G |
O see the poles of promise in the boys | H2 |
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III | A |
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I see the boys of summer in their ruin | B |
Man in his maggot's barren | B |
And boys are full and foreign in the pouch | I2 |
I am the man your father was | J2 |
We are the sons of flint and pitch | K2 |
O see the poles are kissing as they cross | L2 |
Dylan Thomas
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