Summer Song Of The Swallow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEFGHG IJIJKLKLGHG GMGMNJNJGG OPOPQRSRGHG TRTRUVUVGHG| You will journey many a weary day and long | A |
| Ere you will see so restful and sweet a place | B |
| As this my home my nest so downy and warm | C |
| The labor of many happy and hopeful days | D |
| But its low brown walls are laid and softly lined | E |
| And oh full happily now my rest I take | F |
| And care not I when it lightly rocks in the wind | E |
| For the branch above though it bends will never break | F |
| And close by my side rings out the voice of my mate my lover | G |
| Oh the days are long and the days are bright and | H |
| Summer will last forever | G |
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| Now the stream that divides us from perfect bliss | I |
| Seems floating past so narrow so narrow | J |
| You could span its wave such a morn as this | I |
| With a moment winged like a golden arrow | J |
| And the sweet wind waves all the tasselled broom | K |
| And over the hill does it loitering come | L |
| Oh the perfect light oh the perfect bloom | K |
| And the silence is thrilled with the murmurous hum | L |
| Of the bees a kissing the red lipped clover | G |
| Oh the days are long and the days are bright and | H |
| Summer will last forever | G |
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| When the West is a golden glow and lower | G |
| The sun is sinking large and round | M |
| Like a golden goblet spilling o'er | G |
| Glittering drops that drip to the ground | M |
| Then I spread my lustrous wings and cleave the air | N |
| Sailing high with a motion calm and slow | J |
| Far down the green earth lies like a picture fair | N |
| Then with rapid wing I sink in the shining glow | J |
| A chasing the glinting gleaming drops oh a diver | G |
| Am I in a clear and golden sea and Summer will last forever | G |
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| The leaves with a pleasant rustling sound are stirred | O |
| Of a night and the stars are calm and bright | P |
| And I know although I am only a little bird | O |
| One large serious star is watching me all the night | P |
| For when the dewy leaves are waved by the breeze | Q |
| I see it forever smiling down on me | R |
| So I cover my head with my wing and sleep in peace | S |
| As blessed as ever a little bird can be | R |
| And the silver moonlight falls over land and sea and river | G |
| And the nights are cool and the nights are still and | H |
| Summer will last forever | G |
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| I think you would journey many and many a day | T |
| Ere you so contented and blest a bird would see | R |
| Not all the wealth of the world could lure my love away | T |
| For my brown little nest is all the world to me | R |
| And care not I if brighter bowers there are | U |
| Lying close to the sun where tall palms pierce the sky | V |
| Oh you would journey a weary way and a far | U |
| Ere you would behold a bird so blest as I | V |
| And singing close to my side is my mate my kin my lover | G |
| Oh the days are long and the days are bright and | H |
| Summer will last forever | G |
Marietta Holley
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