Summer Dreams Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD AAEEFFGG HHDDAAII JKLLAABB| Drowsy old summer with nothing to do | A |
| I'd like to be drowsin' an' dreamin' with you | A |
| I'd like to stretch out in the shade of a tree | B |
| An' fancy the white clouds were ships out at sea | B |
| Or castles with turrets and treasures and things | C |
| And peopled with princesses fairies and kings | C |
| An' just drench my soul with the glorious joy | D |
| Which was mine to possess as a barefooted boy | D |
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| Drowsy old summer your skies are as blue | A |
| As the skies which a dreamy eyed youngster once knew | A |
| An' I fancy to day all the pictures are there | E |
| The ships an' the pirates an' princesses fair | E |
| The red scenes of battle the gay cheering throngs | F |
| Which greeted the hero who righted all wrongs | F |
| But somehow or other these old eyes of mine | G |
| Can't see what they did as a youngster of nine | G |
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| Drowsy old summer I'd like to forget | H |
| Some things which I've learned an' some hurts I have met | H |
| I'd like the old visions of splendor an' joy | D |
| Which were mine to possess as a barefooted boy | D |
| When I dreamed of the glorious deeds I would do | A |
| As soon as I'd galloped my brief boyhood through | A |
| I'd like to come back an' look into your skies | I |
| With that wondrous belief an' those far seeing eyes | I |
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| Drowsy old summer my dream days have gone | J |
| Only things which are real I must now look upon | K |
| No longer I see in the skies overhead | L |
| The pictures that were for the last one has fled | L |
| I have learned that not all of our dreams can come true | A |
| That the toilers are many and heroes are few | A |
| But I'd like once again to look up there an' see | B |
| The man that I fancied some day I might be | B |
Edgar Albert Guest
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