Midsummer: A Sonnet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDCEFFEGG| A power is on the earth and in the air | A |
| From which the vital spirit shrinks afraid | B |
| And shelters him in nooks of deepest shade | B |
| From the hot steam and from the fiery glare | A |
| Look forth upon the earth her thousand plants | C |
| Are smitten even the dark sun loving maize | D |
| Faints in the field beneath the torrid blaze | D |
| The herd beside the shaded fountain pants | C |
| For life is driven from all the landscape brown | E |
| The bird has sought his tree the snake his den | F |
| The trout floats dead in the hot stream and men | F |
| Drop by the sun stroke in the populous town | E |
| As if the Day of Fire had dawned and sent | G |
| Its deadly breath into the firmament | G |
William Cullen Bryant
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