The Summons Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABCDCCDEFGHFICIIC JKJJKLMLLM| MY ear is full of summer sounds | A |
| Of summer sights my languid eye | B |
| Beyond the dusty village bounds | A |
| I loiter in my daily rounds | A |
| And in the noon time shadows lie | B |
| I hear the wild bee wind his horn | C |
| The bird swings on the ripened wheat | D |
| The long green lances of the corn | C |
| Are tilting in the winds of morn | C |
| The locust shrills his song of heat | D |
| Another sound my spirit hears | E |
| A deeper sound that drowns them all | F |
| A voice of pleading choked with tears | G |
| The call of human hopes and fears | H |
| The Macedonian cry to Paul | F |
| The storm bell rings the trumpet blows | I |
| I know the word and countersign | C |
| Wherever Freedom's vanguard goes | I |
| Where stand or fall her friends or foes | I |
| I know the place that should be mine | C |
| Shamed be the hands that idly fold | J |
| And lips that woo the reed's accord | K |
| When laggard Time the hour has tolled | J |
| For true with false and new with old | J |
| To fight the battles of the Lord | K |
| O brothers blest by partial Fate | L |
| With power to match the will and deed | M |
| To him your summons comes too late | L |
| Who sinks beneath his armor's weight | L |
| And has no answer but God speed | M |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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