Departing Summer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GDHD IJIJ| When auburn Autumn mounts the stage | A |
| And Summer fails her charms to yield | B |
| Bleak nature turns another page | A |
| To light the glories of the field | B |
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| At once the vale declines to bloom | C |
| The forest smiles no longer gay | D |
| Gardens are left without perfume | C |
| The rose and lilly pine away | D |
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| The orchard bows her fruitless head | E |
| As one divested of her store | F |
| Or like a queen whose train has fled | E |
| And left her sad to smile no more | F |
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| That bird which breath'd her vernal song | G |
| And hopp'd along the flow'ry spray | D |
| Now silent holds her warbling tongue | H |
| Which dulcifies the feast of May | D |
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| But let each bitter have its sweet | I |
| No change of nature is in vain | J |
| 'Tis just alternate cold and heat | I |
| For time is pleasure mix'd with pain | J |
George Moses Horton
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