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