Summer-evening, A Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNODPQRS NATUUVLWXYZA2B2C2UD2 E2F2G2H2ULUI2J2UK2L2 M2WN2O2KDP2Q2R2EUS2K 2T2U2V2U2W2X2U2VY2Q2 SZ2U2U2SUA3U2U2U2B3U DMT2UCome my dear Love and let us climb yon hill | A |
The prospect from its height will well reward | B |
The toil of climbing thence we shall command | C |
The various beauties of the landscape round | D |
Now we have reached the top O what a scene | E |
Opens upon the sight and swallows up | F |
The admiring soul She feels as if from earth | G |
Uplifted into heaven Scarce can she yet | H |
Collect herself and exercise her powers | I |
While o'er heaven's lofty wide extended arch | J |
And round the vast horizon the bold eye | K |
Shoots forth her view with what sublime delight | L |
The bosom swells See where the God of day | M |
Who through the cloudless ether long has rid | N |
On his bright fiery car amidst a blaze | O |
Of dazzling glory and in wrath shot round | D |
His burning arrows with tyrannic power | P |
Oppressing Nature now his daily course | Q |
Well nigh completed toward the western goal | R |
Declines and with less awful majesty | S |
Concludes his reign his flamy chariot hid | N |
In floods of golden light that dazzles still | A |
Though less intense O how these scenes exalt | T |
The throbbing heart Louisa canst thou bear | U |
These strong emotions do they not o'erpower | U |
Thy tender nerves I fear my Love they do | V |
Those eyes that late with transport beam'd so bright | L |
Now veil their rays with the soft dewy shade | W |
Of tenderness Let us repose awhile | X |
The roots of yonder tree cover'd with moss | Y |
Present a pleasing seat there let us sit | Z |
Hark Zephyr wakes and sweetly whispering tells | A2 |
The approach of Eve already Nature feels | B2 |
Her soothing influence her refreshing breath | C2 |
The fields the trees imbibe the cool moist air | U |
Their feverish thirst allay and smile revived | D2 |
The Soul too feels her influence sweetly soothed | E2 |
Into a tender calm O let us now | F2 |
My loved Louisa let us now enjoy | G2 |
The landscape's charms and all the nameless sweets | H2 |
Of this our favourite hour for ever dear | U |
To Fancy and to Love Cast round thy sight | L |
Upon the altered scene nor longer fear | U |
The dazzling sun his latest lingering beams | I2 |
Where are they can'st thou find them see they gild | J2 |
The glittering top of yonder village spire | U |
Upon that distant hill they faintly shine | K2 |
And look the topmost boughs of this tall oak | L2 |
Majestic which o'ercanopies our heads | M2 |
Yet catch their tremulous glimmerings now they fade | W |
Fade and expire and as they fade the Moon | N2 |
The full orb'd Moon that seem'd erewhile to melt | O2 |
In the bright azure from the darkening sky | K |
Emerging slow and silent sheds around | D |
Her snowy light that with the day's last dim | P2 |
Reflection from the broad translucid lake | Q2 |
Insensibly commingles and unites | R2 |
In sweetest harmony o'er all the scene | E |
Diffusing magic tints enchanting power | U |
How lovely every object now appears | S2 |
Each in itself and how they all combine | K2 |
In one delightful whole What eye what heart | T2 |
O Nature can resist thy potent charms | U2 |
When thus in soft transparent shade half veil'd | V2 |
Now Beauty and Sublimity methinks | U2 |
Upon the lap of Eve embracing sleep | W2 |
Mark the tree tops my Love of yonder wood | X2 |
Whose moonlight foliage fluctuates in the breeze | U2 |
Say do they not in figure motion hue | V |
Resemble the sea waves at misty dawn | Y2 |
What shadowy shape along the troubled lake | Q2 |
Comes this way moving how mysteriously | S |
It glides along how indistinct its form | Z2 |
Imagination views with sweet surprise | U2 |
The unknown appearance breathless in suspense | U2 |
The Spirit of the waters can it be | S |
On his aerial car some fairy Power | U |
Pants not thy heart Louisa half alarm'd | A3 |
It grows upon the sight strange watery sounds | U2 |
Attend its course hark was not that a voice | U2 |
O 'tis a fishing boat its sails and oars | U2 |
I now discern The church clock strikes how loud | B3 |
Burst forth its sound into the startled air | U |
That feels it still and trembles far around | D |
My dearest Love it summons us away | M |
The dew begins to fall let us depart | T2 |
How sweetly have we spent this evening hour | U |
Thomas Oldham
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