The End Of The Summer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DEDEFGHG FIFIAJAJ DBDBHKFK DLDMNONO P QRQR| The birds laugh loud and long together | A |
| When Fashion's followers speed away | B |
| At the first cool breath of autumn weather | A |
| Why this is the time cry the birds to stay | B |
| When the deep calm sea and the deep sky over | A |
| Both look their passion through sun kissed space | C |
| As a blue eyed maid and her blue eyed lover | A |
| Might each gaze into the other's face | C |
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| Oh this is the time when careful spying | D |
| Discovers the secrets Nature knows | E |
| You find when the butterflies plan for flying | D |
| Before the thrush or the blackbird goes | E |
| You see some day by the water's edges | F |
| A brilliant border of red and black | G |
| And then off over the hills and hedges | H |
| It flutters away on the summer's track | G |
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| The shy little sumacs in lonely places | F |
| Bowed all summer with dust and heat | I |
| Like clean clad children with rain washed faces | F |
| Are dressed in scarlet from head to feet | I |
| And never a flower had the boastful summer | A |
| In all the blossoms that decked her sod | J |
| So royal hued as that later comer | A |
| The purple chum of the goldenrod | J |
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| Some chill grey dawn you note with grieving | D |
| That the King of Autumn is on his way | B |
| You see with a sorrowful slow believing | D |
| How the wanton woods have gone astray | B |
| They wear the stain of bold caresses | H |
| Of riotous revels with old King Frost | K |
| They dazzle all eyes with their gorgeous dresses | F |
| Nor care that their green young leaves are lost | K |
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| A wet wind blows from the East one morning | D |
| The wood's gay garments looked draggled out | L |
| You hear a sound and your heart takes warning | D |
| The birds are planning their winter route | M |
| They wheel and settle and scold and wrangle | N |
| Their tempers are ruffled their voices loud | O |
| Then whirr and away in a feathered tangle | N |
| To fade in the south like a passing cloud | O |
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| Envoi | P |
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| A songless wood stripped bare of glory | Q |
| A sodden moor that is black and brown | R |
| The year has finished its last love story | Q |
| Oh let us away to the gay bright town | R |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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