Solstice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEC FGFFG HIHHI JKJJK LMLLM A AEAAE NONNO PQPPQ RSRRS| I | A |
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| I sit at evening's scented close | B |
| In fulness of the summer tide | C |
| All dewy fair the lily glows | D |
| No single petal of the row | E |
| Has fallen to dim the rose's pride | C |
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| Sweet airs sweet harmonies of hue | F |
| Surround caress me everywhere | G |
| The spells of dusk the spells of dew | F |
| My senses steal my reason woo | F |
| And sing a lullaby to tare | G |
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| But vainly do the warm airs sing | H |
| All vain the roses' rapturous breath | I |
| A chill blast as from wintry wing | H |
| Smites on my heart and shuddering | H |
| I see the beauty changed to death | I |
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| Afar I see it loom and rise | J |
| That pitiless and icy shape | K |
| It blots the blue it dims the skies | J |
| Amid the summer land it cries | J |
| I come and there is no escape | K |
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| O bitter drop in bloom and sweet | L |
| O canker on the smiling day | M |
| Have we but climbed the hill to meet | L |
| Thy fronting fare thy eyes of sleet | L |
| To hate yet dare not turn away | M |
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| II | A |
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| I sit beneath a leaden sky | A |
| Amid the piled and drifted snow | E |
| My feet are on the graves where lie | A |
| The roses which made haste to die | A |
| So long so very long ago | E |
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| The sobbing wind is fierce and strong | N |
| Its cry is like a human wail | O |
| But in my heart it sings this song | N |
| Not long O Lord O Lord not long | N |
| Surely thy spring time shall prevail | O |
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| Out of the darkness and the cold | P |
| Out of the wintry depths I lean | Q |
| And lovingly I clasp and hold | P |
| The promises and see unrolled | P |
| A vision of the summer green | Q |
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| O life in death sweet plucked from pain | R |
| O distant vision fair to see | S |
| Up the long hill we press and strain | R |
| We can bear all things and attain | R |
| If once our faces turn to Thee | S |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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