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 B2C2B2C2| I | 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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