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 UVUV

Though flowers have perished at the touchA
Of Frost the early comerB
I hail the season loved so muchA
The good St Martin's summerB
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O gracious morn with rose red dawnC
And thin moon curving o'er itD
The old year's darling latest bornE
More loved than all before itD
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How flamed the sunrise through the pinesF
How stretched the birchen shadowsG
Braiding in long wind wavered linesF
The westward sloping meadowsG
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The sweet day opening as a flowerB
Unfolds its petals tenderB
Renews for us at noontide's hourB
The summer's tempered splendorB
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The birds are hushed alone the windH
That through the woodland searchesI
The red oak's lingering leaves can findH
And yellow plumes of larchesI
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But still the balsam breathing pineJ
Invites no thought of sorrowK
No hint of loss from air like wineJ
The earth's content can borrowK
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The summer and the winter hereL
Midway a truce are holdingM
A soft consenting atmosphereN
Their tents of peace enfoldingM
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The silent woods the lonely hillsI
Rise solemn in their gladnessI
The quiet that the valley fillsI
Is scarcely joy or sadnessI
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How strange The autumn yesterdayO
In winter's grasp seemed dyingM
On whirling winds from skies of grayO
The early snow was flyingM
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And now while over Nature's moodP
There steals a soft relentingM
I will not mar the present goodQ
Forecasting or lamentingM
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My autumn time and Nature's holdR
A dreamy tryst togetherB
And both grown old about us foldR
The golden tissued weatherB
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I lean my heart against the dayO
To feel its bland caressingM
I will not let it pass awayO
Before it leaves its blessingM
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God's angels come not as of oldR
The Syrian shepherds knew themS
In reddening dawns in sunset goldR
And warm noon lights I view themS
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Nor need there is in times like thisI
When heaven to earth draws nearerB
Of wing or song as witnessesI
To make their presence clearerB
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O stream of life whose swifter flowK
Is of the end forewarningM
Methinks thy sundown afterglowK
Seems less of night than morningM
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Old cares grow light aside I layO
The doubts and fears that troubledT
The quiet of the happy dayO
Within my soul is doubledT
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That clouds must veil this fair sunshineJ
Not less a joy I find itD
Nor less yon warm horizon lineJ
That winter lurks behind itD
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The mystery of the untried daysI
I close my eyes from readingM
His will be done whose darkest waysI
To light and life are leadingM
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Less drear the winter night shall beU
If memory cheer and heartenV
Its heavy hours with thoughts of theeU
Sweet summer of St MartinV

John Greenleaf Whittier



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