Summer Hours. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG IHHI JKKJ LHHL LMML LLLL NLLN| It is the year's high noon | A |
| The earth sweet incense yields | B |
| And o'er the fresh green fields | B |
| Bends the clear sky of June | A |
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| I leave the crowded streets | C |
| The hum of busy life | D |
| Its clamor and its strife | D |
| To breathe thy perfumed sweets | C |
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| O rare and golden hours | E |
| The bird's melodious song | F |
| Wavelike is borne along | F |
| Upon a strand of flowers | E |
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| I wander far away | G |
| Where through the forest trees | H |
| Sports the cool summer breeze | H |
| In wild and wanton play | G |
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| A patriarchal elm | I |
| Its stately form uprears | H |
| Which twice a hundred years | H |
| Has ruled this woodland realm | I |
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| I sit beneath its shade | J |
| And watch with careless eye | K |
| The brook that babbles by | K |
| And cools the leafy glade | J |
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| In truth I wonder not | L |
| That in the ancient days | H |
| The temples of God's praise | H |
| Were grove and leafy grot | L |
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| The noblest ever planned | L |
| With quaint device and rare | M |
| By man can ill compare | M |
| With these from God's own hand | L |
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| Pilgrim with way worn feet | L |
| Who treading life's dull round | L |
| No true repose hast found | L |
| Come to this green retreat | L |
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| For bird and flower and tree | N |
| Green fields and woodland wild | L |
| Shall bear with voices mild | L |
| Sweet messages to thee | N |
Horatio Alger, Jr.
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