In Summer's Heat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHIJJKK JJGGLLIn summer's heat and mid time of the day | A |
To rest my limbs upon a bed I lay | A |
One window shut the other open stood | B |
Which gave such light as twinkles in a wood | B |
Like twilight glimpse at setting of the sun | C |
Or night being past and yet not day begun | C |
Such light to shamefaced maidens must be shown | D |
Where they may sport and seem to be unknown | D |
Then came Corinna in a long loose gown | E |
Her white neck hid with tresses hanging down | E |
Resembling fair Semiramis going to bed | F |
Or Lais of a thousand wooers sped | F |
I snatched her gown being thin the harm was small | G |
Yet strived she to be covered therewithal | G |
And striving thus as one that would be chaste | H |
Betrayed herself and yielded at the last | I |
Stark naked as she stood before mine eye | J |
Not one wen in her body could I spy | J |
What arms and shoulders did I touch and see | K |
How apt her breasts were to be pressed by me | K |
How smooth a belly under her waist saw I | J |
How large a leg and what a lusty thigh | J |
To leave the rest all liked me passing well | G |
I clinged her naked body down she fell | G |
Judge you the rest Being tired she bade me kiss | L |
Jove send me more such afternoons as this | L |
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