Ode To Memory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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IA
THOU who stealest fireB
From the fountains of the pastC
To glorify the present oh hasteD
Visit my low desireB
Strengthen me enlighten meE
I faint in this obscurityE
Thou dewy dawn of memoryE
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IIA
Come not as thou camest of lateF
Flinging the gloom of yesternightF
On the white day but robed in soften d lightF
Of orient stateF
Whilome thou camest with the morning mistF
Even as a maid whose stately browG
The dew impearled winds of dawn have kiss dF
When she as thouG
Stays on her floating locks the lovely freightF
Of overflowing blooms and earliest shootsH
Of orient green giving safe pledge of fruitsH
Which in wintertide shall starI
The black earth with brilliance rareJ
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IIIA
Whilome thou camest with the morning mistF
And with the evening cloudF
Showering thy gleaned wealth into my open breastF
Those peerless flowers which in the rudest windF
Never grow sereK
When rooted in the garden of the mindF
Because they are the earliest of the yearK
Nor was the night thy shroudF
In sweet dreams softer than unbroken restF
Thou leddest by the hand thine infant HopeL
The eddying of her garments caught from theeF
The light of thy great presence and the copeL
Of the half attain d futurityF
Tho deep not fathomlessH
Was cloven with the million stars which trembleM
O er the deep mind of dauntless infancyH
Small thought was there of life s distressH
For sure she deem d no mist of earth could dullM
Those spirit thrilling eyes so keen and beautifulM
Sure she was nigher to heaven s spheresH
Listening the lordly music flowing fromN
The illimitable yearsH
O strengthen me enlighten meH
I faint in this obscurityH
Thou dewy dawn of memoryH
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IVO
Come forth I charge thee ariseH
Thou of the many tongues the myriad eyesH
Thou comest not with shows of flaunting vinesH
Unto mine inner eyeA
Divinest MemoryH
Thou wert not nursed by the waterfallP
Which ever sounds and shinesH
A pillar of white light upon the wallP
Of purple cliffs aloof descriedH
Come from the woods that belt the gray hillsideH
The seven elms the poplars fourQ
That stand beside my father s doorQ
And chiefly from the brook that lovesH
To purl o er matted cress and ribbed sandH
Or dimple in the dark of rushy covesH
Drawing into his narrow earthen urnR
In every elbow and turnR
The filter d tribute of the rough woodlandH
O hither lead thy feetH
Pour round mine ears the livelong bleatH
Of the thick fleeced sheep from wattled foldsH
Upon the ridged woldsH
When the first matin song hath waken d loudH
Over the dark dewy earth forlornS
What time the amber mornS
Forth gushes from beneath a low hung cloudH
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VH
Large dowries doth the raptured eyeA
To the young spirit presentH
When first she is wedH
And like a bride of oldH
In triumph ledH
With music and sweet showersH
Of festal flowersH
Unto the dwelling she must swayT
Well hast thou done great artist MemoryH
In setting round thy first experimentH
With royal framework of wrought goldH
Needs must thou dearly love thy first essayT
And foremost in thy various galleryH
Place it where sweetest sunlight fallsH
Upon the storied wallsH
For the discoveryH
And newness of thine art so pleased theeH
That all which thou hast drawn of fairestH
Or boldest since but lightly weighsH
With thee unto the love thou bearestH
The first born of thy genius Artist likeU
Ever retiring thou dost gazeH
On the prime labor of thine early daysH
No matter what the sketch might beH
Whether the high field on the bushless pikeU
Or even a sand built ridgeV
Of heaped hills that mound the seaH
Overblown with murmurs harshW
Or even a lowly cottage whence we seeH
Stretch d wide and wild the waste enormous marshW
Where from the frequent bridgeV
Like emblems of infinityH
The trenched waters run from sky to skyA
Or a garden bower d closeH
With plaited alleys of the trailing roseH
Long alleys falling down to twilight grotsH
Or opening upon level plotsH
Of crowned lilies standing nearK
Purple spiked lavenderB
Whither in after life retiredH
From brawling stormsH
From weary windH
With youthful fancy re inspiredH
We may hold converse with all formsH
Of the many sided mindH
And those whom passion hath not blindedH
Subtle thoughted myriad mindedH
My friend with you to live aloneX
Were how much better than to ownX
A crown a sceptre and a throneX
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O strengthen me englighten meH
I faint in this obscurityH
Thou dewy dawn of memoryH

Alfred Lord Tennyson



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