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Part I: "A Forerunner"--12 quatrains aabb
Part II: "The Meeting of Spring and Summer"--16 sestets, ababab

The Table of Contents for the third volume of The Evergreen is organized by different sections. The text pieces are organized into the following four sections: I. Summer in Nature; II. Summer in Life; III. Summer in the World; IV. Summer in the…

Cover of pamphlet

Image shows two sphinxes on either side of the Arbor Saeculorum, or the Tree of History. At the top of the tree on the left side is a Phoenix, and on the right is a butterfly. There are two scrolls on either side of the image. Each is divided into…

2 quatrains, rhyming abab

Note: This 'legendary romance' is based upon the ancient and still current (though often hopelessly contradictory) legends concerning Brighid, or Bride, commonly known as ‘Muime Chriosd,' i.e. the Foster-Mother of Christ. From the universal honour…

sonnet: abbaabba cddc ee

Narrator reflects on the weather; autumn and the coming of winter in Scotland; recounts neighbourhood gossip conveyed by his housekeeper Peggy ; [116] “That, you see, is the way a woman’s eye beholds the changes coming.”