Trehill Well Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HEIE IJKJ LMEM NOPO QBRB OSQS TUVU WXYZ A2B2OB2 EThere stood a low and ivied roof | A |
As gazing rustics tell | B |
In times of chivalry and song | C |
'Yclept the holy well | B |
- | |
Above the ivies' branchlets gray | D |
In glistening clusters shone | E |
While round the base the grass blades bright | F |
And spiry foxglove sprung | G |
- | |
The brambles clung in graceful bands | H |
Chequering the old gray stone | E |
With shining leaflets whose bright face | I |
In autumn's tinting shone | E |
- | |
Around the fountain's eastern base | I |
A babbling brooklet sped | J |
With sleepy murmur purling soft | K |
Adown its gravelly bed | J |
- | |
Within the cell the filmy ferns | L |
To woo the clear wave bent | M |
And cushioned mosses to the stone | E |
Their quaint embroidery lent | M |
- | |
The fountain's face lay still as glass | N |
Save where the streamlet free | O |
Across the basin's gnarled lip | P |
Flowed ever silently | O |
- | |
Above the well a little nook | Q |
Once held as rustics tell | B |
All garland decked an image of | R |
The Lady of the Well | B |
- | |
They tell of tales of mystery | O |
Of darkling deeds of woe | S |
But no such doings might not brook | Q |
The holy streamlet's flow | S |
- | |
Oh tell me not of bitter thoughts | T |
Of melancholy dreams | U |
By that fair fount whose sunny wall | V |
Basks in the western beams | U |
- | |
When last I saw that little stream | W |
A form of light there stood | X |
That seemed like a precious gem | Y |
Beneath that archway rude | Z |
- | |
And as I gazed with love and awe | A2 |
Upon that sylph like thing | B2 |
Methought that airy form must be | O |
The fairy of the spring | B2 |
- | |
- | |
Helston | E |
Charles Kingsley
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
<< Sonnet Poem
A Lament Poem>>
Write your comment about Trehill Well poem by Charles Kingsley
Best Poems of Charles Kingsley