In Summer Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGGGHHII JJKKBBLLMMBBNNOOPPQQ PPBBEEWhen summer time has come and all | A |
The world is in the magic thrall | A |
Of perfumed airs that lull each sense | B |
To fits of drowsy indolence | B |
When skies are deepest blue above | C |
And flow'rs aflush then most I love | C |
To start while early dews are damp | D |
And wend my way in woodland tramp | D |
Where forests rustle tree on tree | E |
And sing their silent songs to me | E |
Where pathways meet and path ways part | F |
To walk with Nature heart by heart | F |
Till wearied out at last I lie | G |
Where some sweet stream steals singing by | G |
A mossy bank where violets vie | G |
In color with the summer sky | G |
Or take my rod and line and hook | H |
And wander to some darkling brook | H |
Where all day long the willows dream | I |
And idly droop to kiss the stream | I |
And there to loll from morn till night | J |
Unheeding nibble run or bite | J |
Just for the joy of being there | K |
And drinking in the summer air | K |
The summer sounds and summer sights | B |
That set a restless mind to rights | B |
When grief and pain and raging doubt | L |
Of men and creeds have worn it out | L |
The birds' song and the water's drone | M |
The humming bees' low monotone | M |
The murmur of the passing breeze | B |
And all the sounds akin to these | B |
That make a man in summer time | N |
Feel only fit for rest and rhyme | N |
Joy springs all radiant in my breast | O |
Though pauper poor than king more blest | O |
The tide beats in my soul so strong | P |
That happiness breaks forth in song | P |
And rings aloud the welkin blue | Q |
With all the songs I ever knew | Q |
O time of rapture time of song | P |
How swiftly glide thy days along | P |
Adown the current of the years | B |
Above the rocks of grief and tears | B |
'Tis wealth enough of joy for me | E |
In summer time to simply be | E |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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