First Day Of Summer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEFC GHHIGJJI KLLMKNNM COOPCQQP ORRSOTTS KUUVKBBV| Sweetest of all delights are the vainest merest | A |
| Hours when breath is joy for the breathing's sake | B |
| Summer awoke this morning and early awake | B |
| I rose refreshed and gladly my eyes saluted | C |
| The entering beam of the sun that laughed his clearest | D |
| I too laughed for pleasure and vowed straightway | E |
| To stream and sun the flower of an idle day | F |
| With summer sweetly enjoyed and friends well suited | C |
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| Merry were we as stepping aboard we laid | G |
| The shaven oars in order merry the leap | H |
| Of the oar that grasped the water and stirred from sleep | H |
| A wave to tremble past us in foamy rings | I |
| With rhyming fall and with bright returning blade | G |
| Impetuous music urges the rippling keel | J |
| Softly our necks the flow of the breezes feel | J |
| And blue and thronged with birds the morning sings | I |
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| And lo the elms in a day reclothed and gleaming | K |
| In delicate youth above us stir their leaves | L |
| The eye to naked winter used receives | L |
| A magic pleasure and still the shore we follow | M |
| Winding in flowery meadows freshly streaming | K |
| The river meets us ever from fields unknown | N |
| As light we travel his curving mirror lone | N |
| No longer I envy you O frolic swallow | M |
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| Till moored at noon by shadowy turf and ended | C |
| Awhile that pleasant toil what relish keen | O |
| At ease to lie amid flowers with rustling green | O |
| O'ershaded there reclined by a bubbling pool | P |
| The rushing weir in murmur and foam blended | C |
| Entrancing ear and eye caresses the brain | Q |
| With smooth perpetual sound the lulling strain | Q |
| Of water weariless poured and glittering cool | P |
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| O then refreshed in the level light serene | O |
| Our boat re entering her prow homeward turned | R |
| How soft we glided soft as evening burned | R |
| Through drooping leaves our liquid furrow stirred | S |
| The dim green heights of the elm reflected green | O |
| In shadowy water at last the dreaming shore | T |
| From its own enchanted mirror we know no more | T |
| Softly we glided downward and spoke no word | S |
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| Nor took we land till the West in a blush was dying | K |
| And over the twilit meadow we loitered home | U |
| Even now in my ear is rushing the constant foam | U |
| And the dappled stream is alight with the wind's laughter | V |
| As I taste in the cool of the darkness dreamily lying | K |
| The sun yet warm upon limbs that sweetly ache | B |
| Drowsed deliciously still I linger awake | B |
| Only to keep my delight and to look not after | V |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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