Description Of A Tropical Island Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Behold an Indian isle reposedA
Upon the deep s enamoured breastA
Even like a royal bride be rosedA
With passion in her happy restA
Or when the morn is there disclosedA
Or eve is robing in the westA
The deep as by that isle embossedA
With central gauds of sumless costA
And else outspread in circuit wideA
And round as heaven from side to sideA
Might figure to a fancy boldA
A wide vast shield of fretted goldA
Dropped by some conquer d elder godA
When on his track where er he trodA
Jove s chasing thunders rolledA
Or in the broad noon domed with heavenB
A world wide temple s marble floorC
It seemeth with one alter gravenB
From the rude mass of things terreneB
By Time inspired with Eden loreC
An isle like alter sculptured o erD
With craggy hills and valleys greenB
And heaping forests hung betweenB
By Time with an old love enthralledA
Wrought thus in living emeraldA
And after nature s earliest styleE
Is shaped that wondrous Indian isleE
Or circling out beneath the moonB
Or sowed with all the stars of nightA
And by the lamp like planets strewnB
With long and flame like tracks of lightA
Might seem it to a watcher fondA
Grey Time s broad seal of diamondA
Enchased by nature memory taughtA
With one most rich and rare deviceF
A haunting isolated thoughtA
Of her sin ruined ParadiseF
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A summer island There the treesG
Of glorious forms unseen elsewhereH
Hang forth in golden congeriesG
Their fruit through all the purple yearI
And flowers of every sunset hueJ
And peerless plants of stateliest stemK
Fresh showered each morn with honey dewJ
Voluptuously impave and gemK
The pillary aisles of primal grovesG
That skirt the sunny sea board covesG
Or hang in their umbrageous crowdsG
From coasting slopes like verdant cloudsG
While from the craggy midland hillsG
Out of their gelid springs the rillsG
Leap as exulting to be freeL
And thence in their bright libertyL
Through glades and cultured valleys vastA
And many a wide pasture leaL
Come murmurously winding fastA
And flashing to the seaL
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There too what birds on plain and mountainB
The fairest creatures of the earthM
The deepest dipt in beauty s fountainB
The summer s loveliest birthM
Flock round and vividly unfoldA
Their fulgent wings of feathery goldA
Bedropt with gem like lustres whichN
All interbeaming in their flightA
Break as they pass into a richN
Flame vision on the sightA
Thus fly they and with splendours rareH
Emblaze the warm and genial airH
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Such is the summer wealth and worthM
Of that bright isle I d picture forthO
Nor wants it fields that well affordA
The yellow grain and mellow gourdA
With many a cultivated plainB
Prolific of the luscious caneB
And mealy root for all things thereH
Are bounteous in their kind and fairH
And genial all but the bad mindA
Of recreant man And this hath madeA
Its very beauty seem designedA
To deepen Evil s deadly shadeA
And given its repute to beL
Borne far abroad by every windA
That wafts a white sail o er the seaL
Even like the savour damp with doomP
Of some o ergorged though costly tombP
O learn how like a Upas treeL
Not fabled his dread crueltyL
Can make a scene that else might tellQ
Of Paradise a type of hellQ

Charles Harpur



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