What Makes Summer? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGD HHIJKKEELLLL MMGGEELLKKLLNNEEEEEE EELLOOEEPPQQ RRSSTTUUVVWWEEEEXYLL EEEE UULLMULLZZVVFFEE NNCCA2A2EEUUUUB2B2LL C2C2D2D2E2E2 F2F2G2G2H2H2LLG2G2UU H2H2Winter froze both brook and well | A |
Fast and fast the snowflakes fell | A |
Children gathered round the hearth | B |
Made a summer of their mirth | C |
When a boy so lately come | D |
That his life was yet one sum | D |
Of delights of aimless rambles | E |
Romps and dreams and games and gambols | E |
Thought aloud I wish I knew | F |
What makes summer that I do | F |
Father heard and it did show him | G |
How to write a little poem | D |
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What makes summer little one | H |
Do you ask It is the sun | H |
Want of heat is all the harm | I |
Summer is but winter warm | J |
'Tis the sun yes that one there | K |
Dim and gray low in the air | K |
Now he looks at us askance | E |
But will lift his countenance | E |
Higher up and look down straighter | L |
Rise much earlier set much later | L |
Till we sing out Hail Well comer | L |
Thou hast brought our own old Summer | L |
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When the sun thus rises early | M |
And keeps shining all day rarely | M |
Up he draws the larks to meet him | G |
Earth's bird angels wild to greet him | G |
Up he draws the clouds and pours | E |
Down again their shining showers | E |
Out he draws the grass and clover | L |
Daisies buttercups all over | L |
Out he wiles all flowers to stare | K |
At their father in the air | K |
He all light they how much duller | L |
Yet son suns of every colour | L |
Then he draws their odours out | N |
Sends them on the winds about | N |
Next he draws out flying things | E |
Out of eggs fast flapping wings | E |
Out of lumps like frozen snails | E |
Butterflies with splendid sails | E |
Draws the blossoms from the trees | E |
From their hives the buzzy bees | E |
Golden things from muddy cracks | E |
Beetles with their burnished backs | E |
Laughter draws he from the river | L |
Gleaming back to the gleam giver | L |
Light he sends to every nook | O |
That no creature be forsook | O |
Draws from gloom and pain and sadness | E |
Hope and blessing peace and gladness | E |
Making man's heart sing and shine | P |
With his brilliancy divine | P |
Summer thus it is he makes it | Q |
And the little child he takes it | Q |
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Day's work done adown the west | R |
Lingering he goes to rest | R |
Like a child who blissful yet | S |
Is unwilling to forget | S |
And though sleepy heels and head | T |
Thinks he cannot go to bed | T |
Even when down behind the hill | U |
Back his bright look shineth still | U |
Whose keen glory with the night | V |
Makes the lovely gray twilight | V |
Drawing out the downy owl | W |
With his musical bird howl | W |
Drawing out the leathery bats | E |
Mice they are turned airy cats | E |
Noiseless sly and slippery things | E |
Swimming through the air on wings | E |
Drawing out the feathery moth | X |
Lazy drowsy very loath | Y |
Drawing children to the door | L |
For one goodnight frolic more | L |
Drawing from the glow worms' tails | E |
Glimmers green in grassy dales | E |
Making ocean's phosphor flashes | E |
Glow as if they were sun ashes | E |
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Then the moon comes up the hill | U |
Wide awake but dreaming still | U |
Soft and slow as if in fear | L |
Lest her path should not be clear | L |
Like a timid lady she | M |
Looks around her daintily | U |
Begs the clouds to come about her | L |
Tells the stars to shine without her | L |
Then unveils and bolder grown | Z |
Climbs the steps of her blue throne | Z |
Stately in a calm delight | V |
Mistress of a whole fair night | V |
Lonely but for stars a few | F |
There she sits in silence blue | F |
And the world before her lies | E |
Faint a round shade in the skies | E |
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But what fun is all about | N |
When the humans are shut out | N |
Shadowy to the moon the earth | C |
Is a very world of mirth | C |
Night is then a dream opaque | A2 |
Full of creatures wide awake | A2 |
Noiseless then on feet or wings | E |
Out they come all moon eyed things | E |
In and out they pop and play | U |
Have it all their own wild way | U |
Fly and frolic scamper glow | U |
Treat the moon for all her show | U |
State and opal diadem | B2 |
Like a nursemaid watching them | B2 |
And the nightingale doth snare | L |
All the merry tumult rare | L |
All the music and the magic | C2 |
All the comic and the tragic | C2 |
All the wisdom and the riot | D2 |
Of the midnight moonlight diet | D2 |
In a diamond hoop of song | E2 |
Which he trundles all night long | E2 |
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What doth make the sun you ask | F2 |
Able for such mighty task | F2 |
He is not a lamp hung high | G2 |
Sliding up and down the sky | G2 |
He is carried in a hand | H2 |
That's what makes him strong and grand | H2 |
From that hand comes all his power | L |
If it set him down one hour | L |
Yea one moment set him by | G2 |
In that moment he would die | G2 |
And the winter ice and snow | U |
Come on us and never go | U |
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Need I tell you whose the hand | H2 |
Bears him high o'er sea and land | H2 |
George Macdonald
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