Hazel Blossoms Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD EFEFF GHGHH IJIKK LCMCC NONOO PCPCC HQHRQ| THE 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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