The Departure Of Summer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEEFGHIIHJJKKLL MLMNNOOPPQQRPRPPPPPP PSSTTUUVVLLWXXWCIDIP PYYBBZZPPKPA2PPB2PB2 C2D2E2E2F2F2MMG2UUG2 H2UH2H2I2I2CDJ2I2J2I 2K2K2PPL2L2L2LM2LM2N 2N2K2K2PPPO2P2O2UPPQ 2Q2R2R2S2S2PPNT2NT2N U2U2NPPNNPNNPRRV2V2P 2W2CPDPSummer is gone on swallows' wings | A |
And Earth has buried all her flowers | B |
No more the lark the linnet sings | A |
But Silence sits in faded bowers | B |
There is a shadow on the plain | C |
Of Winter ere he comes again | D |
There is in woods a solemn sound | E |
Of hollow warnings whisper'd round | E |
As Echo in her deep recess | F |
For once had turn'd a prophetess | G |
Shuddering Autumn stops to list | H |
And breathes his fear in sudden sighs | I |
With clouded face and hazel eyes | I |
That quench themselves and hide in mist | H |
Yes Summer's gone like pageant bright | J |
Its glorious days of golden light | J |
Are gone the mimic suns that quiver | K |
Then melt in Time's dark flowing river | K |
Gone the sweetly scented breeze | L |
That spoke in music to the trees | L |
Gone for damp and chilly breath | M |
As if fresh blown o'er marble seas | L |
Or newly from the lungs of Death | M |
Gone its virgin roses' blushes | N |
Warm as when Aurora rushes | N |
Freshly from the God's embrace | O |
With all her shame upon her face | O |
Old Time hath laid them in the mould | P |
Sure he is blind as well as old | P |
Whose hand relentless never spares | Q |
Young cheeks so beauty bright as theirs | Q |
Gone are the flame eyed lovers now | R |
From where so blushing blest they tarried | P |
Under the hawthorn's blossom bough | R |
Gone for Day and Night are married | P |
All the light of love is fled | P |
Alas that negro breasts should hide | P |
The lips that were so rosy red | P |
At morning and at even tide | P |
Delightful Summer then adieu | P |
Till thou shalt visit us anew | P |
But who without regretful sigh | S |
Can say adieu and see thee fly | S |
Not he that e'er hath felt thy pow'r | T |
His joy expanding like a flow'r | T |
That cometh after rain and snow | U |
Looks up at heaven and learns to glow | U |
Not he that fled from Babel strife | V |
To the green sabbath land of life | V |
To dodge dull Care 'mid clustered trees | L |
And cool his forehead in the breeze | L |
Whose spirit weary worn perchance | W |
Shook from its wings a weight of grief | X |
And perch'd upon an aspen leaf | X |
For every breath to make it dance | W |
Farewell on wings of sombre stain | C |
That blacken in the last blue skies | I |
Thou fly'st but thou wilt come again | D |
On the gay wings of butterflies | I |
Spring at thy approach will sprout | P |
Her new Corinthian beauties out | P |
Leaf woven homes where twitter words | Y |
Will grow to songs and eggs to birds | Y |
Ambitious buds shall swell to flowers | B |
And April smiles to sunny hours | B |
Bright days shall be and gentle nights | Z |
Full of soft breath and echo lights | Z |
As if the god of sun time kept | P |
His eyes half open while he slept | P |
Roses shall be where roses were | K |
Not shadows but reality | P |
As if they never perished there | A2 |
But slept in immortality | P |
Nature shall thrill with new delight | P |
And Time's relumined river run | B2 |
Warm as young blood and dazzling bright | P |
As if its source were in the sun | B2 |
But say hath Winter then no charms | C2 |
Is there no joy no gladness warms | D2 |
His aged heart no happy wiles | E2 |
To cheat the hoary one to smiles | E2 |
Onward he comes the cruel North | F2 |
Pours his furious whirlwind forth | F2 |
Before him and we breathe the breath | M |
Of famish'd bears that howl to death | M |
Onward he comes from the rocks that blanch | G2 |
O'er solid streams that never flow | U |
His tears all ice his locks all snow | U |
Just crept from some huge avalanche | G2 |
A thing half breathing and half warm | H2 |
As if one spark began to glow | U |
Within some statue's marble form | H2 |
Or pilgrim stiffened in the storm | H2 |
Oh will not Mirth's light arrows fail | I2 |
To pierce that frozen coat of mail | I2 |
Oh will not joy but strive in vain | C |
To light up those glazed eyes again | D |
No take him in and blaze the oak | J2 |
And pour the wine and warm the ale | I2 |
His sides shall shake to many a joke | J2 |
His tongue shall thaw in many a tale | I2 |
His eyes grow bright his heart be gay | K2 |
And even his palsy charm'd away | K2 |
What heeds he then the boisterous shout | P |
Of angry winds that scowl without | P |
Like shrewish wives at tavern door | L2 |
What heeds he then the wild uproar | L2 |
Of billows bursting on the shore | L2 |
In dashing waves in howling breeze | L |
There is a music that can charm him | M2 |
When safe and sheltered and at ease | L |
He hears the storm that cannot harm him | M2 |
But hark those shouts that sudden din | N2 |
Of little hearts that laugh within | N2 |
Oh take him where the youngsters play | K2 |
And he will grow as young as they | K2 |
They come they come each blue eyed Sport | P |
The Twelfth Night King and all his court | P |
'Tis Mirth fresh crown'd with misletoe | P |
Music with her merry fiddles | O2 |
Joy 'on light fantastic toe ' | P2 |
Wit with all his jests and riddles | O2 |
Singing and dancing as they go | U |
And Love young Love among the rest | P |
A welcome nor unbidden guest | P |
But still for Summer dost thou grieve | Q2 |
Then read our Poets they shall weave | Q2 |
A garden of green fancies still | R2 |
Where thy wish may rove at will | R2 |
They have kept for after treats | S2 |
The essences of summer sweets | S2 |
And echoes of its songs that wind | P |
In endless music through the mind | P |
They have stamp'd in visible traces | N |
The 'thoughts that breathe ' in words that shine | T2 |
The flights of soul in sunny places | N |
To greet and company with thine | T2 |
These shall wing thee on to flow'rs | N |
The past or future that shall seem | U2 |
All the brighter in thy dream | U2 |
For blowing in such desert hours | N |
The summer never shines so bright | P |
As thought of in a winter's night | P |
And the sweetest loveliest rose | N |
Is in the bud before it blows | N |
The dear one of the lover's heart | P |
Is painted to his longing eyes | N |
In charms she ne'er can realize | N |
But when she turns again to part | P |
Dream thou then and bind thy brow | R |
With wreath of fancy roses now | R |
And drink of Summer in the cup | V2 |
Where the Muse hath mix'd it up | V2 |
The 'dance and song and sun burnt mirth ' | P2 |
With the warm nectar of the earth | W2 |
Drink 'twill glow in every vein | C |
And thou shalt dream the winter through | P |
Then waken to the sun again | D |
And find thy Summer Vision true | P |
Thomas Hood
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