Ode To Memory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEEE AFFFFFGFGFHHIJ AFFFFKFKFFLFLFHMHHMM HNHHHH OHHHAHPHPHHQQHHHRRHH HHHHSSH HAHHHHHHTHHHTHHHHHHH HUHHHUVHWHWVHAHHHHKB HHHHHHHHXXX HHHI | A |
THOU who stealest fire | B |
From the fountains of the past | C |
To glorify the present oh haste | D |
Visit my low desire | B |
Strengthen me enlighten me | E |
I faint in this obscurity | E |
Thou dewy dawn of memory | E |
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II | A |
Come not as thou camest of late | F |
Flinging the gloom of yesternight | F |
On the white day but robed in soften d light | F |
Of orient state | F |
Whilome thou camest with the morning mist | F |
Even as a maid whose stately brow | G |
The dew impearled winds of dawn have kiss d | F |
When she as thou | G |
Stays on her floating locks the lovely freight | F |
Of overflowing blooms and earliest shoots | H |
Of orient green giving safe pledge of fruits | H |
Which in wintertide shall star | I |
The black earth with brilliance rare | J |
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III | A |
Whilome thou camest with the morning mist | F |
And with the evening cloud | F |
Showering thy gleaned wealth into my open breast | F |
Those peerless flowers which in the rudest wind | F |
Never grow sere | K |
When rooted in the garden of the mind | F |
Because they are the earliest of the year | K |
Nor was the night thy shroud | F |
In sweet dreams softer than unbroken rest | F |
Thou leddest by the hand thine infant Hope | L |
The eddying of her garments caught from thee | F |
The light of thy great presence and the cope | L |
Of the half attain d futurity | F |
Tho deep not fathomless | H |
Was cloven with the million stars which tremble | M |
O er the deep mind of dauntless infancy | H |
Small thought was there of life s distress | H |
For sure she deem d no mist of earth could dull | M |
Those spirit thrilling eyes so keen and beautiful | M |
Sure she was nigher to heaven s spheres | H |
Listening the lordly music flowing from | N |
The illimitable years | H |
O strengthen me enlighten me | H |
I faint in this obscurity | H |
Thou dewy dawn of memory | H |
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IV | O |
Come forth I charge thee arise | H |
Thou of the many tongues the myriad eyes | H |
Thou comest not with shows of flaunting vines | H |
Unto mine inner eye | A |
Divinest Memory | H |
Thou wert not nursed by the waterfall | P |
Which ever sounds and shines | H |
A pillar of white light upon the wall | P |
Of purple cliffs aloof descried | H |
Come from the woods that belt the gray hillside | H |
The seven elms the poplars four | Q |
That stand beside my father s door | Q |
And chiefly from the brook that loves | H |
To purl o er matted cress and ribbed sand | H |
Or dimple in the dark of rushy coves | H |
Drawing into his narrow earthen urn | R |
In every elbow and turn | R |
The filter d tribute of the rough woodland | H |
O hither lead thy feet | H |
Pour round mine ears the livelong bleat | H |
Of the thick fleeced sheep from wattled folds | H |
Upon the ridged wolds | H |
When the first matin song hath waken d loud | H |
Over the dark dewy earth forlorn | S |
What time the amber morn | S |
Forth gushes from beneath a low hung cloud | H |
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V | H |
Large dowries doth the raptured eye | A |
To the young spirit present | H |
When first she is wed | H |
And like a bride of old | H |
In triumph led | H |
With music and sweet showers | H |
Of festal flowers | H |
Unto the dwelling she must sway | T |
Well hast thou done great artist Memory | H |
In setting round thy first experiment | H |
With royal framework of wrought gold | H |
Needs must thou dearly love thy first essay | T |
And foremost in thy various gallery | H |
Place it where sweetest sunlight falls | H |
Upon the storied walls | H |
For the discovery | H |
And newness of thine art so pleased thee | H |
That all which thou hast drawn of fairest | H |
Or boldest since but lightly weighs | H |
With thee unto the love thou bearest | H |
The first born of thy genius Artist like | U |
Ever retiring thou dost gaze | H |
On the prime labor of thine early days | H |
No matter what the sketch might be | H |
Whether the high field on the bushless pike | U |
Or even a sand built ridge | V |
Of heaped hills that mound the sea | H |
Overblown with murmurs harsh | W |
Or even a lowly cottage whence we see | H |
Stretch d wide and wild the waste enormous marsh | W |
Where from the frequent bridge | V |
Like emblems of infinity | H |
The trenched waters run from sky to sky | A |
Or a garden bower d close | H |
With plaited alleys of the trailing rose | H |
Long alleys falling down to twilight grots | H |
Or opening upon level plots | H |
Of crowned lilies standing near | K |
Purple spiked lavender | B |
Whither in after life retired | H |
From brawling storms | H |
From weary wind | H |
With youthful fancy re inspired | H |
We may hold converse with all forms | H |
Of the many sided mind | H |
And those whom passion hath not blinded | H |
Subtle thoughted myriad minded | H |
My friend with you to live alone | X |
Were how much better than to own | X |
A crown a sceptre and a throne | X |
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O strengthen me englighten me | H |
I faint in this obscurity | H |
Thou dewy dawn of memory | H |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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