The Summer Breezelet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HIHI JKJK DLDL MNMN IGK| 'NOT now shall I sing of my sports in Spring | A |
| But the golden hours and gay ' | B |
| Sang the Breeze 'when I a wild lover hie | C |
| With the Summer flowers to play | D |
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| 'When I tiptoe go to the pansy tho' | E |
| She wag to and fro her head | F |
| She yet likes I know my kisses and so | G |
| Is kist on her low green bed | F |
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| 'The rose newly born albeit she's sworn | H |
| Her lover shall mourn I woo | I |
| And escape untorn by her pointed thorn | H |
| And never a scorn may rue | I |
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| 'The pink she may shrink at my touch I think | J |
| When her sweets I drink in glee | K |
| At the theft she'll wink and a kindly blink | J |
| Will the sweet mouth'd pink throw me | K |
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| 'That snowy white may the lily I sway | D |
| And when I essay love stirred | L |
| In my own wild way with the saint to play | D |
| No cruel Nay is heard | L |
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| 'When I in my zeal to the poppy steal | M |
| Tho' she'd fain conceal her flame | N |
| Yet she'll rock and reel with feeling I feel | M |
| Nor seek my zeal to blame | N |
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| 'The woodbine too nay all blooms I woo | I |
| In the fields or bowers and O | G |
| And the mad pranks we will play and the glee | K |
| And the golden hours we know ' | - |
Joseph Skipsey
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