The Last Eve Of Summer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGH IIJJ KKLL LLMM NNOO IIPP| Summer's last sun nigh unto setting shines | A |
| Through yon columnar pines | A |
| And on the deepening shadows of the lawn | B |
| Its golden lines are drawn | B |
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| Dreaming of long gone summer days like this | C |
| Feeling the wind's soft kiss | C |
| Grateful and glad that failing ear and sight | D |
| Have still their old delight | D |
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| I sit alone and watch the warm sweet day | E |
| Lapse tenderly away | E |
| And wistful with a feeling of forecast | F |
| I ask 'Is this the last | F |
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| 'Will nevermore for me the seasons run | G |
| Their round and will the sun | G |
| Of ardent summers yet to come forget | H |
| For me to rise and set ' | - |
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| Thou shouldst be here or I should be with thee | I |
| Wherever thou mayst be | I |
| Lips mute hands clasped in silences of speech | J |
| Each answering unto each | J |
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| For this still hour this sense of mystery far | K |
| Beyond the evening star | K |
| No words outworn suffice on lip or scroll | L |
| The soul would fain with soul | L |
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| Wait while these few swift passing days fulfil | L |
| The wise disposing Will | L |
| And in the evening as at morning trust | M |
| The All Merciful and Just | M |
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| The solemn joy that soul communion feels | N |
| Immortal life reveals | N |
| And human love its prophecy and sign | O |
| Interprets love divine | O |
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| Come then in thought if that alone may be | I |
| O friend and bring with thee | I |
| Thy calm assurance of transcendent Spheres | P |
| And the Eternal Years | P |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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