The Summer Bower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLIMNJOPQR NSTUVWXYZA2B2C2D2E2Y F2G2H2I2J2K2L2M2I2N2 O2P2Q2R2ODHVI2S2HT2N Q2U2V2W2X2VKY2Y2Y2Z2| It is a place whither I've often gone | A |
| For peace and found it secret hushed and cool | B |
| A beautiful recess in neighboring woods | C |
| Trees of the soberest hues thick leaved and tall | D |
| Arch it o'erhead and column it around | E |
| Framing a covert natural and wild | F |
| Domelike and dim though nowhere so enclosed | G |
| But that the gentlest breezes reach the spot | H |
| Unwearied and unweakened Sound is here | I |
| A transient and unfrequent visitor | J |
| Yet if the day be calm not often then | K |
| Whilst the high pines in one another's arms | L |
| Sleep you may sometimes with unstartled ear | I |
| Catch the far fall of voices how remote | M |
| You know not and you do not care to know | N |
| The turf is soft and green but not a flower | J |
| Lights the recess save one star shaped and bright | O |
| I do not know its name which here and there | P |
| Gleams like a sapphire set in emerald | Q |
| A narrow opening in the branched roof | R |
| A single one is large enough to show | N |
| With that half glimpse a dreamer loves so much | S |
| The blue air and the blessing of the sky | T |
| Thither I always bent my idle steps | U |
| When griefs depressed or joys disturbed my heart | V |
| And found the calm I looked for or returned | W |
| Strong with the quiet rapture in my soul | X |
| But one day | Y |
| One of those July days when winds have fled | Z |
| One knows not whither I most sick in mind | A2 |
| With thoughts that shall be nameless yet no doubt | B2 |
| Wrong or at least unhealthful since though dark | C2 |
| With gloom and touched with discontent they had | D2 |
| No adequate excuse nor cause nor end | E2 |
| I with these thoughts and on this summer day | Y |
| Entered the accustomed haunt and found for once | F2 |
| No medicinal virtue | G2 |
| Not a leaf | H2 |
| Stirred with the whispering welcome which I sought | I2 |
| But in a close and humid atmosphere | J2 |
| Every fair plant and implicated bough | K2 |
| Hung lax and lifeless Something in the place | L2 |
| Its utter stillness the unusual heat | M2 |
| And some more secret influence I thought | I2 |
| Weighed on the sense like sin Above I saw | N2 |
| Though not a cloud was visible in heaven | O2 |
| The pallid sky look through a glazed mist | P2 |
| Like a blue eye in death | Q2 |
| The change perhaps | R2 |
| Was natural enough my jaundiced sight | O |
| The weather and the time explain it all | D |
| Yet have I drawn a lesson from the spot | H |
| And shrined it in these verses for my heart | V |
| Thenceforth those tranquil precincts I have sought | I2 |
| Not less and in all shades of various moods | S2 |
| But always shun to desecrate the spot | H |
| By vain repinings sickly sentiments | T2 |
| Or inconclusive sorrows Nature though | N |
| Pure as she was in Eden when her breath | Q2 |
| Kissed the white brow of Eve doth not refuse | U2 |
| In her own way and with a just reserve | V2 |
| To sympathize with human suffering | W2 |
| But for the pains the fever and the fret | X2 |
| Engendered of a weak unquiet heart | V |
| She hath no solace and who seeks her when | K |
| These be the troubles over which he moans | Y2 |
| Reads in her unreplying lineaments | Y2 |
| Rebukes that to the guilty consciousness | Y2 |
| Strike like contempt | Z2 |
Henry Timrod
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