To Edward Lear: On His Travels In Greece Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG IJJI KLLK| Illyrian woodlands echoing falls | A |
| Of water sheets of summer glass | B |
| The long divine Peneian pass | B |
| The vast Akrokeraunian walls | A |
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| Tomohrit Athos all things fair | C |
| With such a pencil such a pen | D |
| You shadow forth to distant men | D |
| I read and felt that I was there | C |
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| And trust me while I turn'd the page | E |
| And track'd you still on classic ground | F |
| I grew in gladness till I found | F |
| My spirits in the golden age | E |
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| For me the torrent ever pour'd | G |
| And glisten'd here and there alone | H |
| The broad limb'd gods at random thrown | H |
| By fountain urns and Naiads oar'd | G |
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| A glimmering shoulder under gloom | I |
| Of cavern pillars on the swell | J |
| The silver lily heaved and fell | J |
| And many a slope was rich in bloom | I |
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| From him that on the mountain lea | K |
| By dancing rivulets fed his flocks | L |
| To him who sat upon the rocks | L |
| And fluted to the morning sea | K |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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