The Four Seasons : Summer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST UVWXYZA2B2C2D2E2SC2F 2G2H2EI2EJ2K2TL2M2VE N2O2P2Q2R2Q2S2T2U2D2 PIM2M2V2M2M2M2M2W2X2 V2SC2M2Y2Z2TA3M2F2M2 B3C3ED3E3F3G3PH3M2M2 VI3J3I3K3L3M3M2I3W2I 3N3O3M2F2M2I3Z2M3I3M 2P3D2I3F2I3Q3ER3S3T3 M2M2M2M2M2I3SU3NR3M2 I3V3SM2W3M2M2F2M3X3M 2I3I3I3M2P2M2M2I3D2M 2FY3I3M2Z3M2I3U3I3P3 I3I3M2M2V3T2A4M2FM2M 2P2B4I3I3H2B4

From brightening fields of ether fair disclosedA
Child of the Sun refulgent Summer comesB
In pride of youth and felt through Nature's depthC
He comes attended by the sultry HoursD
And ever fanning breezes on his wayE
While from his ardent look the turning SpringF
Averts her blushful face and earth and skiesG
All smiling to his hot dominion leavesH
Hence let me haste into the mid wood shadeI
Where scarce a sunbeam wanders through the gloomJ
And on the dark green grass beside the brinkK
Of haunted stream that by the roots of oakL
Rolls o'er the rocky channel lie at largeM
And sing the glories of the circling yearN
Come Inspiration from thy hermit seatO
By mortal seldom found may Fancy dareP
From thy fix'd serious eye and raptured glanceQ
Shot on surrounding Heaven to steal one lookR
Creative of the Poet every powerS
Exalting to an ecstasy of soulT
And thou my youthful Muse's early friendU
In whom the human graces all uniteV
Pure light of mind and tenderness of heartW
Genius and wisdom the gay social senseX
By decency chastised goodness and witY
In seldom meeting harmony combinedZ
Unblemish'd honour and an active zealA2
For Britain's glory liberty and ManB2
O Dodington attend my rural songC2
Stoop to my theme inspirit every lineD2
And teach me to deserve thy just applauseE2
With what an awful world revolving powerS
Were first the unwieldy planets launch'd alongC2
The illimitable void thus to remainF2
Amid the flux of many thousand yearsG2
That oft has swept the toiling race of menH2
And all their labour'd monuments awayE
Firm unremitting matchless in their courseI2
To the kind temper'd change of night and dayE
And of the seasons ever stealing roundJ2
Minutely faithful such the All perfect handK2
That poised impels and rules the steady wholeT
When now no more the alternate Twins are firedL2
And Cancer reddens with the solar blazeM2
Short is the doubtful empire of the nightV
And soon observant of approaching dayE
The meek'd eyed Morn appears mother of dewsN2
At first faint gleaming in the dappled eastO2
Till far o'er ether spreads the widening glowP2
And from before the lustre of her faceQ2
White break the clouds away With quicken'd stepR2
Brown Night retires young Day pours in apaceQ2
And opens all the lawny prospect wideS2
The dripping rock the mountain's misty topT2
Swell on the sight and brighten with the dawnU2
Blue through the dusk the smoking currents shineD2
And from the bladed field the fearful hareP
Limps awkward while along the forest gladeI
The wild deer trip and often turning gazeM2
At early passenger Music awakesM2
The native voice of undissembled joyV2
And thick around the woodland hymns ariseM2
Roused by the cock the soon clad shepherd leavesM2
His mossy cottage where with Peace he dwellsM2
And from the crowded fold in order drivesM2
His flock to taste the verdure of the mornW2
Falsely luxurious will not Man awakeX2
And springing from the bed of sloth enjoyV2
The cool the fragrant and the silent hourS
To meditation due and sacred songC2
For is there ought in sleep can charm the wiseM2
To lie in dead oblivion losing halfY2
The fleeting moments of too short a lifeZ2
Total extinction of the enlightened soulT
Or else to feverish vanity aliveA3
Wilder'd and tossing through distemper'd dreamsM2
Who would in such a gloomy state remainF2
Longer than Nature craves when every MuseM2
And every blooming pleasure wait withoutB3
To bless the wildly devious morning walkC3
But yonder comes the powerful King of DayE
Rejoicing in the east The lessening cloudD3
The kindling azure and the mountain's browE3
Illumed with fluid gold his near approachF3
Betoken glad Lo now apparent allG3
Aslant the dew bright earth and colour'd airP
He looks in boundless majesty abroadH3
And sheds the shining day that burnish'd playsM2
On rocks and hills and towers and wandering streamsM2
High gleaming from afar Prime cheerer LightV
Of all material beings first and bestI3
Efflux divine Nature's resplendent robeJ3
Without whose vesting beauty all were wraptI3
In unessential gloom and thou O SunK3
Soul of surrounding worlds in whom best seenL3
Shines out thy Maker may I sing of theeM3
'Tis by thy secret strong attractive forceM2
As with a chain indissoluble boundI3
Thy system rolls entire from the far bourneW2
Of utmost Saturn wheeling wide his roundI3
Of thirty years to Mercury whose diskN3
Can scarce be caught by philosophic eyeO3
Lost in the near effulgence of thy blazeM2
Informer of the planetary trainF2
Without whose quickening glance their cumbrous orbsM2
Were brute unlovely mass inert and deadI3
And not as now the green abodes of lifeZ2
How many forms of being wait on theeM3
Inhaling spirit from the unfetter'd mindI3
By thee sublimed down to the daily raceM2
The mixing myriads of thy setting beamP3
The vegetable world is also thineD2
Parent of Seasons who the pomp precedeI3
That waits thy throne as through thy vast domainF2
Annual along the bright ecliptic roadI3
In world rejoicing state it moves sublimeQ3
Meantime the expecting nations circled gayE
With all the various tribes of foodful earthR3
Implore thy bounty or send grateful upS3
A common hymn while round thy beaming carT3
High seen the Seasons lead in sprightly danceM2
Harmonious knit the rosy finger'd HoursM2
The Zephyrs floating loose the timely RainsM2
Of bloom ethereal the light footed DewsM2
And softened into joy the surly StormsM2
These in successive turn with lavish handI3
Shower every beauty every fragrance showerS
Herbs flowers and fruits and kindling at thy touchU3
From land to land is flush'd the vernal yearN
Nor to the surface of enliven'd earthR3
Graceful with hills and dales and leafy woodsM2
Her liberal tresses is thy force confinedI3
But to the bowel'd cavern darting deepV3
The mineral kinds confess thy mighty powerS
Effulgent hence the veiny marble shinesM2
Hence Labour draws his tools hence burnish'd WarW3
Gleams on the day the nobler works of PeaceM2
Hence bless mankind and generous Commerce bindsM2
The round of nations in a golden chainF2
The unfruitful rock itself impregn'd by theeM3
In dark retirement forms the lucid stoneX3
The lively diamond drinks thy purest raysM2
Collected light compact that polish'd brightI3
And all its native lustre let abroadI3
Dares as it sparkles on the fair one's breastI3
With vain ambition emulate her eyesM2
At thee the ruby lights its deepening glowP2
And with a waving radiance inward flamesM2
From thee the sapphire solid ether takesM2
Its hue cerulean and of evening tinctI3
The purple streaming amethyst is thineD2
With thy own smile the yellow topaz burnsM2
Nor deeper verdure dyes the robe of SpringF
When first she gives it to the southern galeY3
Than the green emerald shows But all combinedI3
Thick through the whitening opal play thy beamsM2
Or flying several from its surface formZ3
A trembling variance of revolving huesM2
As the site varies in the gazer's handI3
The very dead creation from thy touchU3
Assumes a mimic life By thee refinedI3
In brighter mazes the relucent streamP3
Plays o'er the mead The precipice abruptI3
Projecting horror on the blacken'd floodI3
Softens at thy return The desert joysM2
Wildly through all his melancholy boundsM2
Rude ruins glitter and the briny deepV3
Seen from some pointed promontory's topT2
Far to the blue horizon's utmost vergeA4
Restless reflects a floating gleam But thisM2
And all the much transported Muse can singF
Are to thy beauty dignity and useM2
Unequal far great delegated sourceM2
Of light and life and grace and joy belowP2
How shall I then attempt to sing of HimB4
Who Light Himself in uncreated lightI3
Invested deep dwells awfully retiredI3
From mortal eye or angel's purer kenH2
Whose single smB4

James Thomson



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