On Summer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI HBJB FKFK LMLM NCNO PQPR SMSM TUTU VIVI| Esteville fire begins to burn | A |
| The auburn fields of harvest rise | B |
| The torrid flames again return | A |
| And thunders roll along the skies | B |
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| Perspiring Cancer lifts his head | C |
| And roars terrific from on high | D |
| Whose voice the timid creatures dread | C |
| From which they strive with awe to fly | D |
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| The night hawk ventures from his cell | E |
| And starts his note in evening air | F |
| He feels the heat his bosom swell | E |
| Which drives away the gloom of fear | G |
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| Thou noisy insect start thy drum | H |
| Rise lamp like bugs to light the train | I |
| And bid sweet Philomela come | H |
| And sound in front the nightly strain | I |
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| The bee begins her ceaseless hum | H |
| And doth with sweet exertions rise | B |
| And with delight she stores her comb | J |
| And well her rising stock supplies | B |
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| Let sportive children well beware | F |
| While sprightly frisking o'er the green | K |
| And carefully avoid the snare | F |
| Which lurks beneath the smiling scene | K |
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| The mistress bird assumes her nest | L |
| And broods in silence on the tree | M |
| Her note to cease her wings at rest | L |
| She patient waits her young to see | M |
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| The farmer hastens from the heat | N |
| The weary plough horse droops his head | C |
| The cattle all at noon retreat | N |
| And ruminate beneath the shade | O |
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| The burdened ox with dauntless rage | P |
| Flies heedless to the liquid flood | Q |
| From which he quaffs devoid of guage | P |
| Regardless of his driver's rod | R |
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| Pomacious orchards now expand | S |
| Their laden branches o'er the lea | M |
| And with their bounty fill the land | S |
| While plenty smiles on every tree | M |
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| On fertile borders near the stream | T |
| Now gaze with pleasure and delight | U |
| See loaded vines with melons teem | T |
| 'Tis paradise to human sight | U |
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| With rapture view the smiling fields | V |
| Adorn the mountain and the plain | I |
| Each on the eve of Autumn yields | V |
| A large supply of golden grain | I |
George Moses Horton
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