Summer Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD ECECFBFB EGEGCHCH| The meadow lark s trill and the brown thrush s whistle | A |
| From morning to evening fill all the sweet air | B |
| And my heart is as light as the down of a thistle | A |
| The world is so bright and the earth is so fair | B |
| There is life in the wood there is bloom on the meadow | C |
| The air drops with songs that the merry birds sing | D |
| The sunshine has won in the battle with shadow | C |
| And she s dressed the glad earth with robes of the spring | D |
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| The bee leaves his hive for the field of red clover | E |
| And the vale where the daisies bloom white as the snow | C |
| And a mantle of warm yellow sunshine hangs over | E |
| The calm little pond where the pale lillies grow | C |
| In the woodland beyond it a thousand gay voices | F |
| Are singing in chorus some jubilant air | B |
| The bird and the bee and all nature rejoices | F |
| The world is so bright and the earth is so fair | B |
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| I am glad as a child in this beautiful weather | E |
| I have tossed all my burdens and trials away | G |
| My heart is as light yes as light as a feather | E |
| I am care free and careless and happy to day | G |
| Can it be there approaches a dark dreary to morrow | C |
| Can shadows e er fall on this beautiful earth | H |
| Ah To day is my own No forebodings of sorrow | C |
| Shall darken my skies or shall dampen my mirth | H |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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