Summer Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCB DEFFE GHIJH DKLLM NOPPO DKQRK| I looked into my heart to write | A |
| And found a desert there | B |
| But when I looked again I heard | C |
| Howling and proud in every word | C |
| The hyena despair | B |
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| Great summer sun great summer sun | D |
| All loss burns in trophies | E |
| And in the cold sheet of the sky | F |
| Lifelong the fishlipped lovers lie | F |
| Kissing catastrophes | E |
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| O loving garden where I lay | G |
| When under the breasted tree | H |
| My son stood up behind my eyes | I |
| And groaned Remember that the price | J |
| Is vinegar for me | H |
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| Great summer sun great summer sun | D |
| Turn back to the designer | K |
| I would not be the one to start | L |
| The breaking day and the breaking heart | L |
| For all the grief in China | M |
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| My one my one my only love | N |
| Hide hide your face in a leaf | O |
| And let the hot tear falling burn | P |
| The stupid heart that will not learn | P |
| The everywhere of grief | O |
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| Great summer sun great summer sun | D |
| Turn back to the never never | K |
| Cloud cuckoo happy far off land | Q |
| Where all the love is true love and | R |
| True love goes on for ever | K |
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