St. Martin's Summer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG BBBB HIHI JKJK LMNM IIII OMOM PMQM RBRB OMOM RSRS IBIB KMKM OTOT JDJD IMIM UVUVThough flowers have perished at the touch | A |
Of Frost the early comer | B |
I hail the season loved so much | A |
The good St Martin's summer | B |
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O gracious morn with rose red dawn | C |
And thin moon curving o'er it | D |
The old year's darling latest born | E |
More loved than all before it | D |
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How flamed the sunrise through the pines | F |
How stretched the birchen shadows | G |
Braiding in long wind wavered lines | F |
The westward sloping meadows | G |
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The sweet day opening as a flower | B |
Unfolds its petals tender | B |
Renews for us at noontide's hour | B |
The summer's tempered splendor | B |
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The birds are hushed alone the wind | H |
That through the woodland searches | I |
The red oak's lingering leaves can find | H |
And yellow plumes of larches | I |
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But still the balsam breathing pine | J |
Invites no thought of sorrow | K |
No hint of loss from air like wine | J |
The earth's content can borrow | K |
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The summer and the winter here | L |
Midway a truce are holding | M |
A soft consenting atmosphere | N |
Their tents of peace enfolding | M |
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The silent woods the lonely hills | I |
Rise solemn in their gladness | I |
The quiet that the valley fills | I |
Is scarcely joy or sadness | I |
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How strange The autumn yesterday | O |
In winter's grasp seemed dying | M |
On whirling winds from skies of gray | O |
The early snow was flying | M |
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And now while over Nature's mood | P |
There steals a soft relenting | M |
I will not mar the present good | Q |
Forecasting or lamenting | M |
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My autumn time and Nature's hold | R |
A dreamy tryst together | B |
And both grown old about us fold | R |
The golden tissued weather | B |
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I lean my heart against the day | O |
To feel its bland caressing | M |
I will not let it pass away | O |
Before it leaves its blessing | M |
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God's angels come not as of old | R |
The Syrian shepherds knew them | S |
In reddening dawns in sunset gold | R |
And warm noon lights I view them | S |
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Nor need there is in times like this | I |
When heaven to earth draws nearer | B |
Of wing or song as witnesses | I |
To make their presence clearer | B |
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O stream of life whose swifter flow | K |
Is of the end forewarning | M |
Methinks thy sundown afterglow | K |
Seems less of night than morning | M |
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Old cares grow light aside I lay | O |
The doubts and fears that troubled | T |
The quiet of the happy day | O |
Within my soul is doubled | T |
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That clouds must veil this fair sunshine | J |
Not less a joy I find it | D |
Nor less yon warm horizon line | J |
That winter lurks behind it | D |
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The mystery of the untried days | I |
I close my eyes from reading | M |
His will be done whose darkest ways | I |
To light and life are leading | M |
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Less drear the winter night shall be | U |
If memory cheer and hearten | V |
Its heavy hours with thoughts of thee | U |
Sweet summer of St Martin | V |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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