The Dance Of Summer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBACCDDCEEFFEGGHHG IIGGIJJKKJGGGGGGGGGG HHGGH| Summer gowned in catnip gray | A |
| Goes her weedy wildwood way | A |
| Where with rosehip buttoned coat | B |
| Cardinal flower plume afloat | B |
| With the squirrel folk at play | A |
| Brown September smiling stands | C |
| Chieftain of the Romany bands | C |
| Of the Fall a gypsy crew | D |
| Glimmering in lobelia blue | D |
| Gold and scarlet down the lands | C |
| Summer with a redbird trill | E |
| Dares him follow at her will | E |
| There to romp in tree and vine | F |
| Drink the sunset's crimson wine | F |
| And on beauty feast his fill | E |
| He his Autumn whistle takes | G |
| And his dark hair backward shakes | G |
| Pipes a note and bids her on | H |
| Dancing like a woodland faun | H |
| And she follows through the brakes | G |
| She must follow she is bound | I |
| By the wildness of the sound | I |
| Is it love or necromance | G |
| Down the world he leads the dance | G |
| And the woods go whirling round | I |
| Wildly briars clutch and hold | J |
| Branches reach out arms of gold | J |
| Naught can stay them Pipe and follow | K |
| Over hill and over hollow | K |
| Till the night fall dark and cold | J |
| Now her gown is torn in shreds | G |
| And her gossamer veil is threads | G |
| Streaming round her nakedness | G |
| And the flowers at her distress | G |
| Weep and hide their drooping heads | G |
| Round her whirl the frightened leaves | G |
| And the stammering water grieves | G |
| Nut and haw the forest throws | G |
| At her as she dancing goes | G |
| To the pipe that magic weaves | G |
| Death will have her She must spin | H |
| Till a skeleton she win | H |
| To the land where Winter dwells | G |
| Where shall end Fall's gipsy spells | G |
| And her long white sleep begin | H |
Madison Julius Cawein
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