A Summer Shower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBB DEEEE FGHGG IJKJL KMNMM OMHMM EMMMM| Welcome rain or tempest | A |
| From yon airy powers | B |
| We have languished for them | C |
| Many sultry hours | B |
| And earth is sick and wan and pines with all her flowers | B |
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| What have they been doing | D |
| In the burning June | E |
| Riding with the genii | E |
| Visiting the moon | E |
| Or sleeping on the ice amid an arctic noon | E |
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| Bring they with them jewels | F |
| From the sunset lands | G |
| What are these they scatter | H |
| With such lavish hands | G |
| There are no brighter gems in Raolconda's sands | G |
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| Pattering on the gravel | I |
| Dropping from the eaves | J |
| Glancing in the grass and | K |
| Tinkling on the leaves | J |
| They flash the liquid pearls as flung from fairy sieves | L |
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| Meanwhile unreluctant | K |
| Earth like Danae lies | M |
| Listen is it fancy | N |
| That beneath us sighs | M |
| As that warm lap receives the largesse of the skies | M |
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| Jove it is descendeth | O |
| In those crystal rills | M |
| And this world wide tremor | H |
| Is a pulse that thrills | M |
| To a god's life infused through veins of velvet hills | M |
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| Wait thou jealous sunshine | E |
| Break not on their bliss | M |
| Earth will blush in roses | M |
| Many a day for this | M |
| And bend a brighter brow beneath thy burning kiss | M |
Henry Timrod
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