The Summer House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCB DEDEFGFG DBDBHIHJ KLKLMJMM HGHGMEME NENEOPOG| Midway upon the lawn it stands | A |
| So picturesque and pretty | B |
| Upreared by patient artist hands | A |
| Admired of all the city | B |
| The very arbor of my dream | C |
| A covert cool and airy | B |
| So leaf embowered as to seem | C |
| The dwelling of a fairy | B |
| - | |
| It is the place to lie supine | D |
| Within a hammock swinging | E |
| To watch the sunset red as wine | D |
| To hear the crickets singing | E |
| And while the insect world around | F |
| Is buzzing by the million | G |
| No winged thing above the ground | F |
| Intrudes in this pavilion | G |
| - | |
| It is the place at day's decline | D |
| To tell the old old story | B |
| Behind the dark Madeira vine | D |
| Behind the morning glory | B |
| To confiscate the rustic seat | H |
| And barter stolen kisses | I |
| For honey must be twice as sweet | H |
| In such a spot as this is | J |
| - | |
| It is the haunt where one may get | K |
| Relief from petty trouble | L |
| May read the latest day's gazette | K |
| About the Klondike bubble | L |
| How shanties rise like golden courts | M |
| Where sheep wear glittering fleeces | J |
| How gold is picked up by the quartz | M |
| And all get rich as Croesus | M |
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| Here hid away from dust and heat | H |
| Secure from rude intrusion | G |
| While willing lips the thought repeat | H |
| So grows the fond illusion | G |
| That happiness the product is | M |
| Of lazy languid dozing | E |
| Of soft midsummer reveries | M |
| Half waking half reposing | E |
| - | |
| And here in restful interlude | N |
| Life's fallacies forgetting | E |
| Its frailties such a multitude | N |
| The fuming and the fretting | E |
| Amid the fragrance dusk and dew | O |
| The happy soul at even | P |
| May walk abroad and interview | O |
| Bright messengers from Heaven | G |
Hattie Howard
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