Hazel Blossoms Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD EFEFF GHGHH IJIKK LCMCC NONOO PCPCC HQHRQ

THE SUMMER warmth has left the skyA
The summer songs have died awayB
And withered in the footpaths lieA
The fallen leaves but yesterdayB
With ruby and with topaz gayB
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The grass is browning on the hillsC
No pale belated flowers recallD
The astral fringes of the rillsC
And drearily the dead vines fallD
Frost blackened from the roadside wallD
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Yet through the gray and sombre woodE
Against the dusk of fir and pineF
Last of their floral sisterhoodE
The hazel s yellow blossoms shineF
The tawny gold of Afric s mineF
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Small beauty hath my unsung flowerG
For spring to own or summer hailH
But in the season s saddest hourG
To skies that weep and winds that wailH
Its glad surprisals never failH
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O days grown cold O life grown oldI
No rose of June may bloom againJ
But like the hazel s twisted goldI
Through early frost and latter rainK
Shall hints of summer time remainK
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And as within the hazel s boughL
A gift of mystic virtue dwellsC
That points to golden ores belowM
And in dry desert places tellsC
Where flow unseen the cool sweet wellsC
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So in the wise Diviner s handN
Be mine the hazel s grateful partO
To feel beneath a thirsty landN
The living waters thrill and startO
The beating of the rivulet s heartO
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Sufficeth me the gift to lightP
With latest bloom the dark cold daysC
To call some hidden spring to sightP
That in these dry and dusty waysC
Shall sing its pleasant song of praiseC
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O Love the hazel wand may failH
But thou canst lend the surer spellQ
That passing over Baca s valeH
Repeats the old time miracleR
And makes the desert land a wellQ

John Greenleaf Whittier



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