Palinodia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJKLMNOPQMRMOS MNIMTUVWMNXMVYZA2VYe mountains on whose torrent furrowed slopes | A |
And bare and silent brows uplift to heaven | B |
I envied oft the soul which fills your wastes | C |
Of pure and stern sublime and still expanse | D |
Unbroken by the petty incidents | E |
Of noisy life Oh hear me once again | F |
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Winds upon whose racked eddies far aloft | G |
Above the murmur of the uneasy world | H |
My thoughts in exultation held their way | I |
Whose tremulous whispers through the rustling glade | J |
Were once to me unearthly tones of love | K |
Joy without object wordless music stealing | L |
Through all my soul until my pulse beat fast | M |
With aimless hope and unexpressed desire | N |
Thou sea who wast to me a prophet deep | O |
Through all thy restless waves and wasting shores | P |
Of silent labour and eternal change | Q |
First teacher of the dense immensity | M |
Of ever stirring life in thy strange forms | R |
Of fish and shell and worm and oozy weed | M |
To me alike thy frenzy and thy sleep | O |
Have been a deep and breathless joy Oh hear | S |
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Mountains and winds and waves take back your child | M |
Upon thy balmy bosom Mother Nature | N |
Where my young spirit dreamt its years away | I |
Give me once more to nestle I have strayed | M |
Far through another world which is not thine | T |
Through sunless cities and the weary haunts | U |
Of smoke grimed labour and foul revelry | V |
My flagging wing has swept A mateless bird's | W |
My pilgrimage has been through sin and doubt | M |
And darkness seeking love Oh hear me Nature | N |
Receive me once again but not alone | X |
No more alone Great Mother I have brought | M |
One who has wandered yet not sinned like me | V |
Upon thy lap twin children let us lie | Y |
And in the light of thine immortal eyes | Z |
Let our souls mingle till The Father calls | A2 |
To some eternal home the charge He gives thee | V |
Charles Kingsley
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