Indian Summer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBABBB CDDCDDD CDDCDDD DAADAEA EFFEFFF AAAAAAA AAAAAAA| Is it not our bounden duty | A |
| Harsh and bitter thoughts to quell | B |
| Wild ambitions schemes repel | B |
| And to revel in the beauty | A |
| Of this Indian summer spell | B |
| Bathing forest field and dell | B |
| As with radiance immortelle | B |
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| None can paint like nature dying | C |
| Whose dissolving struggle lent | D |
| Wealth of hues so richly blent | D |
| That through weary years of trying | C |
| Artist skill pre eminent | D |
| May not copy or invent | D |
| Such divine embellishment | D |
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| Knights of old from castles riding | C |
| Scattered largesse as they went | D |
| Which like manna heaven sent | D |
| Cheered the poverty abiding | C |
| But when 'neath that low green tent | D |
| Passed the hand benevolent | D |
| Sad were they and indigent | D |
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| Monarchs too have thus delighted | D |
| Giving unto courtiers free | A |
| Costly robes and tinselry | A |
| And as royal guests invited | D |
| Them to sumptuous halls of glee | A |
| Banqueting and minstrelsy | E |
| Bacchus holding sovereignty | A |
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| Then perchance in mood capricious | E |
| Stripped and scorned and turned away | F |
| Those who tasted for a day | F |
| Pleasure sweet and food delicious | E |
| Nor might any say them nay | F |
| Lest his head the forfeit pay | F |
| Who a king dared disobey | F |
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| But our own benignant Giver | A |
| Almoner impartial true | A |
| Constantly doth gifts renew | A |
| Nor would fitfully deliver | A |
| Aught unto the chosen few | A |
| But to all the wide world through | A |
| Who admire his wonders too | A |
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| Never shall the heart be poorer | A |
| Never languish in despair | A |
| That such affluence may share | A |
| For than this is nothing surer | A |
| He hath said and will prepare | A |
| In those realms of upper air | A |
| Glories infinitely fair | A |
Hattie Howard
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