Poet Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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The Poet's Mind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDB A DEDDDDEDFFGDHHGHIJJD KIDKLLMNHH

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Vex not thou the poet's mindB
With thy shallow witC
Vex not thou the poet's mindB
For thou canst not fathom itC
Clear and bright it should be everD
Flowing like a crystal riverD
Bright as light and clear as windB
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IIA
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Dark brow'd sophist come not anearD
All the place is holy groundE
Hollow smile and frozen sneerD
Come not hereD
Holy water will I pourD
Into every spicy flowerD
Of the laurel shrubs that hedge it aroundE
The flowers would faint at your cruel cheerD
In your eye there is deathF
There is frost in your breathF
Which would blight the plantsG
Where you stand you cannot hearD
From the groves withinH
The wild bird's dinH
In the heart of the garden the merry bird chantsG
It would fall to the ground if you came inH
In the middle leaps a fountainI
Like sheet lightningJ
Ever brighteningJ
With a low melodious thunderD
All day and all night it is ever drawnK
From the brain of the purple mountainI
Which stands in the distance yonderD
It springs on a level of bowery lawnK
And the mountain draws it from heaven aboveL
And it sings a song of undying loveL
And yet tho' its voice be so clear and fullM
You never would hear it your ears are so dullN
So keep where you are you are foul with sinH
It would shrink to the earth if you came inH

Alfred Lord Tennyson



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