Wordsworth At Dove Cottage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCB DEDEFFE GHGHIIH JKLKMMK NONONNO NNNNPPN QRQRSSR TUTUNNU ININTTN NVNVNNV NWNWIIX YZYZA2A2Z| Wise Wordsworth to avert your ken | A |
| From half of human fate | B |
| What is there in the ways of men | A |
| Their struggles or their state | B |
| To make the calm recluse forswear | C |
| The garden path the fire side chair | C |
| To journey with the Great | B |
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| The narrowest hamlet lends the heart | D |
| A realm as rich and wide | E |
| As kingdoms do to play its part | D |
| Who reaps not that hath tried | E |
| More rapture from the wayside flower | F |
| Than all the stairs and robes of power | F |
| And avenues of pride | E |
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| Whether we scan it from below | G |
| Or bask in it above | H |
| We weary of life's glittering show | G |
| We tire of all save Love | H |
| As when fatigued with wood notes shrill | I |
| We listen with contentment still | I |
| To cooings of the dove | H |
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| In this low cottage nested near | J |
| Mountain and lake you dwelt | K |
| 'Twas here you tilled the ground 'twas here | L |
| You loved and wrote and knelt | K |
| Hence wheresoe'er your kindred dwell | M |
| Your songs sincere our hearts compel | M |
| To feel the thing you felt | K |
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| Glory there is that lives entombed | N |
| In spacious soaring shrine | O |
| A tenement more narrow roomed | N |
| Sufficient is for thine | O |
| A homely temple haply found | N |
| Where peasants toil and streamlets sound | N |
| Adorned not but divine | O |
| - | |
| Your sacred music still is heard | N |
| When notes profane have died | N |
| Like some familiar home bred word | N |
| You in our lives abide | N |
| And when with trackless feet we rove | P |
| By meadow mountain mere or grove | P |
| We feel you at our side | N |
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| Thrice happy bard who found at home | Q |
| All joys that needful be | R |
| Whose longings were not forced to roam | Q |
| Beyond your household Three | R |
| Your own proud genius steadfast calm | S |
| A wife whose faith was household balm | S |
| And heavenly Dorothy | R |
| - | |
| What is it sweetens tasteless Fame | T |
| Makes shadowy Glory bliss | U |
| What is the guerdon poets claim | T |
| What should it be but this | U |
| A heart attuned to understand | N |
| A listening ear a loving hand | N |
| A smile a tear a kiss | U |
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| Leave them but these and let who will | I |
| Crave plaudits from the crowd | N |
| Its vapid incense aves shrill | I |
| And favour of the proud | N |
| The sweetest minister of Fame | T |
| Is she who broods upon one's name | T |
| But calls it not aloud | N |
| - | |
| And this at least in full you had | N |
| From sister and from wife | V |
| They made your gravest moments glad | N |
| They havened you from strife | V |
| Hallowed your verse revered your tread | N |
| Maintained a nimbus round your head | N |
| And deified your life | V |
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| Hence long as gentle brows shall bend | N |
| Over your rustic page | W |
| Their pious love shall still befriend | N |
| The poet and the sage | W |
| For when we cross your cottage sill | I |
| Virtue no less than Genius will | I |
| Invite the Pilgrimage | X |
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| The tallest tower that ever rose | Y |
| Hath but a span to soar | Z |
| Palace and fane are passing shows | Y |
| But Time will be no more | Z |
| When Wordsworth's home no longer leads | A2 |
| Men's far off feet to Grasmere's meads | A2 |
| And sanctifies its shore | Z |
Alfred Austin
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