Midsummer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KKBB BBAA| Here sweep these foolish leaves away | A |
| I will not crush my brains to day | A |
| Look are the southern curtains drawn | B |
| Fetch me a fan and so begone | B |
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| Not that the palm tree's rustling leaf | C |
| Brought from a parching coral reef | C |
| Its breath is heated I would swing | D |
| The broad gray plumes the eagle's wing | D |
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| I hate these roses' feverish blood | E |
| Pluck me a half blown lily bud | E |
| A long stemmed lily from the lake | F |
| Cold as a coiling water snake | F |
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| Rain me sweet odors on the air | G |
| And wheel me up my Indian chair | G |
| And spread some book not overwise | H |
| Flat out before my sleepy eyes | H |
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| Who knows it not this dead recoil | I |
| Of weary fibres stretched with toil | I |
| The pulse that flutters faint and low | J |
| When Summer's seething breezes blow | J |
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| O Nature bare thy loving breast | K |
| And give thy child one hour of rest | K |
| One little hour to lie unseen | B |
| Beneath thy scarf of leafy green | B |
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| So curtained by a singing pine | B |
| Its murmuring voice shall blend with mine | B |
| Till lost in dreams my faltering lay | A |
| In sweeter music dies away | A |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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