Midsummer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EEEEFGFG HIHIFJFJ HKHK| After the May time and after the June time | A |
| Rare with blossoms and perfumes sweet | B |
| Cometh the round world's royal noon time | A |
| The red midsummer of blazing heat | B |
| When the sun like an eye that never closes | C |
| Bends on the earth its fervid gaze | D |
| And the winds are still and the crimson roses | C |
| Droop and wither and die in its rays | D |
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| Unto my heart has come that season | E |
| O my lady my worshipped one | E |
| When over the stars of Pride and Reason | E |
| Sails Love's cloudless noonday sun | E |
| Like a great red ball in my bosom burning | F |
| With fires that nothing can quench or tame | G |
| It glows till my heart itself seems turning | F |
| Into a liquid lake of flame | G |
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| The hopes half shy and the sighs all tender | H |
| The dreams and fears of an earlier day | I |
| Under the noontide's royal splendour | H |
| Droop like roses and wither away | I |
| From the hills of doubt no winds are blowing | F |
| From the isle of pain no breeze is sent | J |
| Only the sun in a white heat glowing | F |
| Over an ocean of great content | J |
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| Sink O my soul in this golden glory | H |
| Die O my heart in thy rapture swoon | K |
| For the Autumn must come with its mournful story | H |
| And Love's midsummer will fade too soon | K |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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