Description Of A Tropical Island Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAABCBBC DBBAAEEBABAAAAFAF GHGIJKJKGGGGGGLLALAL BMBMAANANAHH MOAABBHHAAAALALPPLLQ QBehold an Indian isle reposed | A |
Upon the deep s enamoured breast | A |
Even like a royal bride be rosed | A |
With passion in her happy rest | A |
Or when the morn is there disclosed | A |
Or eve is robing in the west | A |
The deep as by that isle embossed | A |
With central gauds of sumless cost | A |
And else outspread in circuit wide | A |
And round as heaven from side to side | A |
Might figure to a fancy bold | A |
A wide vast shield of fretted gold | A |
Dropped by some conquer d elder god | A |
When on his track where er he trod | A |
Jove s chasing thunders rolled | A |
Or in the broad noon domed with heaven | B |
A world wide temple s marble floor | C |
It seemeth with one alter graven | B |
From the rude mass of things terrene | B |
By Time inspired with Eden lore | C |
An isle like alter sculptured o er | D |
With craggy hills and valleys green | B |
And heaping forests hung between | B |
By Time with an old love enthralled | A |
Wrought thus in living emerald | A |
And after nature s earliest style | E |
Is shaped that wondrous Indian isle | E |
Or circling out beneath the moon | B |
Or sowed with all the stars of night | A |
And by the lamp like planets strewn | B |
With long and flame like tracks of light | A |
Might seem it to a watcher fond | A |
Grey Time s broad seal of diamond | A |
Enchased by nature memory taught | A |
With one most rich and rare device | F |
A haunting isolated thought | A |
Of her sin ruined Paradise | F |
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A summer island There the trees | G |
Of glorious forms unseen elsewhere | H |
Hang forth in golden congeries | G |
Their fruit through all the purple year | I |
And flowers of every sunset hue | J |
And peerless plants of stateliest stem | K |
Fresh showered each morn with honey dew | J |
Voluptuously impave and gem | K |
The pillary aisles of primal groves | G |
That skirt the sunny sea board coves | G |
Or hang in their umbrageous crowds | G |
From coasting slopes like verdant clouds | G |
While from the craggy midland hills | G |
Out of their gelid springs the rills | G |
Leap as exulting to be free | L |
And thence in their bright liberty | L |
Through glades and cultured valleys vast | A |
And many a wide pasture lea | L |
Come murmurously winding fast | A |
And flashing to the sea | L |
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There too what birds on plain and mountain | B |
The fairest creatures of the earth | M |
The deepest dipt in beauty s fountain | B |
The summer s loveliest birth | M |
Flock round and vividly unfold | A |
Their fulgent wings of feathery gold | A |
Bedropt with gem like lustres which | N |
All interbeaming in their flight | A |
Break as they pass into a rich | N |
Flame vision on the sight | A |
Thus fly they and with splendours rare | H |
Emblaze the warm and genial air | H |
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Such is the summer wealth and worth | M |
Of that bright isle I d picture forth | O |
Nor wants it fields that well afford | A |
The yellow grain and mellow gourd | A |
With many a cultivated plain | B |
Prolific of the luscious cane | B |
And mealy root for all things there | H |
Are bounteous in their kind and fair | H |
And genial all but the bad mind | A |
Of recreant man And this hath made | A |
Its very beauty seem designed | A |
To deepen Evil s deadly shade | A |
And given its repute to be | L |
Borne far abroad by every wind | A |
That wafts a white sail o er the sea | L |
Even like the savour damp with doom | P |
Of some o ergorged though costly tomb | P |
O learn how like a Upas tree | L |
Not fabled his dread cruelty | L |
Can make a scene that else might tell | Q |
Of Paradise a type of hell | Q |
Charles Harpur
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