Summer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHJ KLKM NONO PQPQO Phoebus down the western sky | A |
Far hence diffuse thy burning ray | B |
Thy light to distant worlds supply | A |
And wake them to the cares of day | B |
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Come gentle Eve the friend of care | C |
Come Cynthia lovely queen of night | D |
Refresh me with a cooling breeze | E |
And cheer me with a lambent light | D |
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Lay me where o'er the verdant ground | F |
Her living carpet Nature spreads | G |
Where the green bower with roses crown'd | F |
In showers its fragrant foliage spreads | G |
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Improve the peaceful hour with wine | H |
Let music die along the grove | I |
Around the bowl let myrtles twine | H |
And every strain be tuned to love | J |
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Come Stella queen of all my heart | K |
Come born to fill its vast desires | L |
Thy looks perpetual joy impart | K |
Thy voice perpetual love inspires | M |
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Whilst all my wish and thine complete | N |
By turns we languish and we burn | O |
Let sighing gales our sights repeat | N |
Our murmurs murmuring brooks return | O |
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Let me when Nature calls to rest | P |
And blushing skies the morn foretell | Q |
Sink on the down of Stella's breast | P |
And bid the waking world farewell | Q |
Samuel Johnson
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