A Summer Ramble Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH JKJK LMLM NOPO QRQR CSCS CTCT CUCU VIVI UWUW XYXY ZA2ZB2| The quiet August noon has come | A |
| A slumberous silence fills the sky | B |
| The fields are still the woods are dumb | A |
| In glassy sleep the waters lie | B |
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| And mark yon soft white clouds that rest | C |
| Above our vale a moveless throng | D |
| The cattle on the mountain's breast | C |
| Enjoy the grateful shadow long | D |
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| Oh how unlike those merry hours | E |
| In early June when Earth laughs out | F |
| When the fresh winds make love to flowers | E |
| And woodlands sing and waters shout | F |
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| When in the grass sweet voices talk | G |
| And strains of tiny music swell | H |
| From every moss cup of the rock | I |
| From every nameless blossom's bell | H |
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| But now a joy too deep for sound | J |
| A peace no other season knows | K |
| Hushes the heavens and wraps the ground | J |
| The blessing of supreme repose | K |
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| Away I will not be to day | L |
| The only slave of toil and care | M |
| Away from desk and dust away | L |
| I'll be as idle as the air | M |
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| Beneath the open sky abroad | N |
| Among the plants and breathing things | O |
| The sinless peaceful works of God | P |
| I'll share the calm the season brings | O |
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| Come thou in whose soft eyes I see | Q |
| The gentle meanings of thy heart | R |
| One day amid the woods with me | Q |
| From men and all their cares apart | R |
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| And where upon the meadow's breast | C |
| The shadow of the thicket lies | S |
| The blue wild flowers thou gatherest | C |
| Shall glow yet deeper near thine eyes | S |
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| Come and when mid the calm profound | C |
| I turn those gentle eyes to seek | T |
| They like the lovely landscape round | C |
| Of innocence and peace shall speak | T |
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| Rest here beneath the unmoving shade | C |
| And on the silent valleys gaze | U |
| Winding and widening till they fade | C |
| In yon soft ring of summer haze | U |
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| The village trees their summits rear | V |
| Still as its spire and yonder flock | I |
| At rest in those calm fields appear | V |
| As chiselled from the lifeless rock | I |
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| One tranquil mount the scene o'erlooks | U |
| There the hushed winds their sabbath keep | W |
| While a near hum from bees and brooks | U |
| Comes faintly like the breath of sleep | W |
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| Well may the gazer deem that when | X |
| Worn with the struggle and the strife | Y |
| And heart sick at the wrongs of men | X |
| The good forsakes the scene of life | Y |
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| Like this deep quiet that awhile | Z |
| Lingers the lovely landscape o'er | A2 |
| Shall be the peace whose holy smile | Z |
| Welcomes him to a happier shore | B2 |
William Cullen Bryant
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