Ballade (double Refrain) Of Midsummer Days And Nights - To W. H Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCCC CCCCCCCC CCCCCCCC D CCCCWith a ripple of leaves and a tinkle of streams | A |
The full world rolls in a rhythm of praise | B |
And the winds are one with the clouds and beams | A |
Midsummer days Midsummer days | B |
The dusk grows vast in a purple haze | B |
While the West from a rapture of sunset rights | C |
Faint stars their exquisite lamps upraise | C |
Midsummer nights O midsummer nights | C |
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The wood's green heart is a nest of dreams | C |
The lush grass thickens and springs and sways | C |
The rathe wheat rustles the landscape gleams | C |
Midsummer days Midsummer days | C |
In the stilly fields in the stilly ways | C |
All secret shadows and mystic lights | C |
Late lovers murmur and linger and gaze | C |
Midsummer nights O midsummer nights | C |
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There's a music of bells from the trampling teams | C |
Wild skylarks hover the gorses blaze | C |
The rich ripe rose as with incense steams | C |
Midsummer days Midsummer days | C |
A soul from the honeysuckle strays | C |
And the nightingale as from prophet heights | C |
Sings to the Earth of her million Mays | C |
Midsummer nights O midsummer nights | C |
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Envoy | D |
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And it's O for my dear and the charm that stays | C |
Midsummer days Midsummer days | C |
It's O for my Love and the dark that plights | C |
Midsummer nights O midsummer nights | C |
William Ernest Henley
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