Songs Of The Summer Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGHG IJIJ A KLKL AMAM NONO PQPQ A RSRS TUTU SVSV SWSW R XTXT YZYZ A2TA2T B2C2B2C2I | A |
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A glory on the chamber wall | B |
A glory in the brain | C |
Triumphant floods of glory fall | B |
On heath and wold and plain | C |
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Earth lieth still in hopeless bliss | D |
She has and seeks no more | E |
Forgets that days come after this | D |
Forgets the days before | E |
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Each ripple waves a flickering fire | F |
Of gladness as it runs | G |
They laugh and flash and leap and spire | H |
And toss ten thousand suns | G |
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But hark low in the world within | I |
One sad aeolian tone | J |
Ah shall we ever ever win | I |
A summer of our own | J |
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II | A |
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A morn of winds and swaying trees | K |
Earth's jubilance rushing out | L |
The birds are fighting with the breeze | K |
The waters heave about | L |
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White clouds are swept across the sky | A |
Their shadows o'er the graves | M |
Purpling the green they float and fly | A |
Athwart the sunny waves | M |
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The long grass an earth rooted sea | N |
Mimics the watery strife | O |
To boat or horse Wild motion we | N |
Shall find harmonious life | O |
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But whither Roll and sweep and bend | P |
Suffice for Nature's part | Q |
But motion to an endless end | P |
Is needful for our heart | Q |
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III | A |
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The morn awakes like brooding dove | R |
With outspread wings of gray | S |
Her feathery clouds close in above | R |
And roof a sober day | S |
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No motion in the deeps of air | T |
No trembling in the leaves | U |
A still contentment everywhere | T |
That neither laughs nor grieves | U |
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A film of sheeted silver gray | S |
Shuts in the ocean's hue | V |
White winged feluccas cleave their way | S |
In paths of gorgeous blue | V |
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Dream on dream on O dreamy day | S |
Thy very clouds are dreams | W |
Yon child is dreaming far away | S |
He is not where he seems | W |
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IV | R |
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The lark is up his faith is strong | X |
He mounts the morning air | T |
Lone voice of all the creature throng | X |
He sings the morning prayer | T |
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Slow clouds from north and south appear | Y |
Black based with shining slope | Z |
In sullen forms their might they rear | Y |
And climb the vaulted cope | Z |
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A lightning flash a thunder boom | A2 |
Nor sun nor clouds are there | T |
A single all pervading gloom | A2 |
Hangs in the heavy air | T |
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A weeping wasting afternoon | B2 |
Weighs down the aspiring corn | C2 |
Amber and red the sunset soon | B2 |
Leads back to golden morn | C2 |
George Macdonald
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