Scene Between May And June Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCBCC BDBDDBDBB CECEEFEFF GBHBBIBII CJCJIBJBB| In lowly dale fast by a river's side | A |
| With woody hill o'er hill encompass'd round | B |
| A most enchanting wizard did abide | A |
| Than whom a fiend more fell is nowhere found | B |
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| It was I ween a lovely spot of ground | B |
| And there a season atween June and May | C |
| Half prankt with spring with summer half imbrown'd | B |
| A listless climate made where sooth to say | C |
| No living wight could work ne cared e'en for play | C |
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| Was nought around but images of rest | B |
| Sleep soothing groves and quiet lawns between | D |
| And flowery beds that slumbrous influence kest | B |
| From poppies breath'd and beds of pleasant green | D |
| Where never yet was creeping creature seen | D |
| Meatime unnumber'd glittering streamlets play'd | B |
| And hurl'd everywhere their water's sheen | D |
| That as they bicker'd through the sunny glade | B |
| Though restless still themselves a lulling murmur made | B |
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| Join'd to the prattle of the purling rills | C |
| Were heard the lowing herds along the vale | E |
| And flocks loud bleating from the distant hills | C |
| And vacant shepherds piping in the dale | E |
| And now and then sweet Philomel would wail | E |
| Or stock doves plain amid the forest deep | F |
| That drowsy rustled to the sighing gale | E |
| And still a coil the grasshopper did keep | F |
| Yet all these sounds y blent inclined all to sleep | F |
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| Full in the passage of the vale above | G |
| A sable silent solemn forest stood | B |
| Where nought but shadowy forms was seen to move | H |
| As Idless fancy'd in her dreaming mood | B |
| And up the hills on either side a wood | B |
| Of black'ning pines aye waving to and fro | I |
| Sent forth a sleepy horror through the blood | B |
| And where this valley winded out below | I |
| The murmuring main was heard and scarcely heard to flow | I |
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| A pleasing land of drowsy head it was | C |
| Of dreams that wave before the half shut eye | J |
| And of gay castles in the clouds that pass | C |
| For ever flushing round a summer sky | J |
| There eke the soft delights that witchingly | I |
| Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast | B |
| And the calm pleasures always hover'd nigh | J |
| But whate'er smack'd of noyace or unrest | B |
| Was far far off expell'd from this delicious nest | B |
James Thomson
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