Summer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHJ KLKM NONO PQPQ| O 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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