Hazel Blossoms Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD EFEFF GHGHH IJIKK LCMCC NONOO PCPCC HQHRQTHE SUMMER warmth has left the sky | A |
The summer songs have died away | B |
And withered in the footpaths lie | A |
The fallen leaves but yesterday | B |
With ruby and with topaz gay | B |
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The grass is browning on the hills | C |
No pale belated flowers recall | D |
The astral fringes of the rills | C |
And drearily the dead vines fall | D |
Frost blackened from the roadside wall | D |
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Yet through the gray and sombre wood | E |
Against the dusk of fir and pine | F |
Last of their floral sisterhood | E |
The hazel s yellow blossoms shine | F |
The tawny gold of Afric s mine | F |
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Small beauty hath my unsung flower | G |
For spring to own or summer hail | H |
But in the season s saddest hour | G |
To skies that weep and winds that wail | H |
Its glad surprisals never fail | H |
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O days grown cold O life grown old | I |
No rose of June may bloom again | J |
But like the hazel s twisted gold | I |
Through early frost and latter rain | K |
Shall hints of summer time remain | K |
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And as within the hazel s bough | L |
A gift of mystic virtue dwells | C |
That points to golden ores below | M |
And in dry desert places tells | C |
Where flow unseen the cool sweet wells | C |
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So in the wise Diviner s hand | N |
Be mine the hazel s grateful part | O |
To feel beneath a thirsty land | N |
The living waters thrill and start | O |
The beating of the rivulet s heart | O |
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Sufficeth me the gift to light | P |
With latest bloom the dark cold days | C |
To call some hidden spring to sight | P |
That in these dry and dusty ways | C |
Shall sing its pleasant song of praise | C |
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O Love the hazel wand may fail | H |
But thou canst lend the surer spell | Q |
That passing over Baca s vale | H |
Repeats the old time miracle | R |
And makes the desert land a well | Q |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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