The Poet-s Choice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBCDDDCA EEEFBBBFA GGGHIIIHJ KKKIBBBIJ LLLJMMMJJ IIIIIIIIJ IIIINNNI| I | A |
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| 'Twas in youth that hour of dreaming | B |
| Round me visions fair were beaming | B |
| Golden fancies brightly gleaming | B |
| Such as start to birth | C |
| When the wandering restless mind | D |
| Drunk with beauty thinks to find | D |
| Creatures of a fairy kind | D |
| Realised on Earth | C |
| II | A |
| - | |
| Then for me in every dell | E |
| Hamadryads seem'd to dwell | E |
| They who die as Poets tell | E |
| Each with her own tree | F |
| And sweet mermaids low reclining | B |
| Dim light through their grottos shining | B |
| Green weeds round their soft limbs twinng | B |
| Peopled the deep Sea | F |
| III | A |
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| Then when moon and stars were fair | G |
| Nymph like visions fill'd the air | G |
| With blue wings and golden hair | G |
| Bending from the skies | H |
| And each cave by echo haunted | I |
| In its depth of shadow granted | I |
| Brightly the Egeria wanted | I |
| To my eager eyes | H |
| IV | J |
| - | |
| But those glories pass'd away | K |
| Earth seem'd left to dull decay | K |
| And my heart in sadness lay | K |
| Desolate uncheer'd | I |
| Like one wrapt in painful sleeping | B |
| Pining thirsting waaking weeping | B |
| Watsh thro' Life's dark midnight keeping | B |
| Till THY form appear'd | I |
| V | J |
| - | |
| THEN my soul whose erring measure | L |
| Knew not where to find true pleasure | L |
| Woke and seized the golden treasure | L |
| Of thy human love | J |
| And looking on thy radiant brow | M |
| My lips in gladness breathed the vow | M |
| Which angels not more fair than thou | M |
| Have register'd above | J |
| VI | J |
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| And now I take my quiet rest | I |
| With my head upon thy breast | I |
| I will make no fiurther quest | I |
| In Fancy's realms of light | I |
| Fay nor nymph nor wing emacr d spirit | I |
| Shall my store of love inherit | I |
| More thy mortal charm doth merit | I |
| Than dream however bright | I |
| VII | J |
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| And my soul like some sweet bird | I |
| Whose song at summer eve is heard | I |
| When the breeze so lightly stirr'd | I |
| Leaves the branch unbent | I |
| Sits and all triumphant sings | N |
| Folding up her brooding wings | N |
| And gazing out on earthly things | N |
| With a calm content | I |
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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