L-allegro Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCAACDDEECCDFGFDHD IJEEKKLLMMNNIOOPPCQA QQRSQQQQSTTUVVUQUUWU QWXQXQQYYYQQZZQQUA2A 2UB2B2B2B2B2B2B2B2C2 QQQAAQAQFelicity | A |
Who ope'st to none that knocks yet laughing weak | B |
Yield'st all to Love that will not seek | B |
And who though won wilt droop and die | C |
Unless wide doors bespeak thee free | A |
How safe's the bond of thee and me | A |
Since thee I cherish and defy | C |
Is't Love or Friendship Dearest we obey | D |
Ah thou art young and I am gray | D |
But happy man is he who knows | E |
How well time goes | E |
With no unkind intruder by | C |
Between such friends as thou and I | C |
'Twould wrong thy favour Sweet were I to say | D |
'Tis best by far | F |
When best things are not possible | G |
To make the best of those that are | F |
For though it be not May | D |
Sure few delights of Spring excel | H |
The beauty of this mild September day | D |
So with me walk | I |
And view the dreaming field and bossy Autumn wood | J |
And how in humble russet goes | E |
The Spouse of Honour fair Repose | E |
Far from a world whence love is fled | K |
And truth is dying because joy is dead | K |
And if we hear the roaring wheel | L |
Of God's remoter service public zeal | L |
Let us to stiller place retire | M |
And glad admire | M |
How near Him sounds of working cease | N |
In little fervour and much peace | N |
And let us talk | I |
Of holy things in happy mood | O |
Learnt of thy blest twin sister Certitude | O |
Or let's about our neighbours chat | P |
Well praising this less praising that | P |
And judging outer strangers by | C |
Those gentle and unsanction'd lines | Q |
To which remorse of equity | A |
Of old hath moved the School divines | Q |
Or linger where this willow bends | Q |
And let us till the melody be caught | R |
Harken that sudden singing thought | S |
On which unguess'd increase to life perchance depends | Q |
He ne'er hears twice the same who hears | Q |
The songs of heaven's unanimous spheres | Q |
And this may be the song to make at last amends | Q |
For many sighs and boons in vain long sought | S |
Now careless let us stray or stop | T |
To see the partridge from the covey drop | T |
Or while the evening air's like yellow wine | U |
From the pure stream take out | V |
The playful trout | V |
That jerks with rasping check the struggled line | U |
Or to the Farm where high on trampled stacks | Q |
The labourers stir themselves amain | U |
To feed with hasty sheaves of grain | U |
The deaf'ning engine's boisterous maw | W |
And snatch again | U |
From to and fro tormenting racks | Q |
The toss'd and hustled straw | W |
Whilst others tend the shedded wheat | X |
That fills yon row of shuddering sacks | Q |
Or shift them quick and bind them neat | X |
And dogs and boys with sticks | Q |
Wait murderous for the rats that leave the ruin'd ricks | Q |
And all the bags being fill'd and rank'd fivefold they pour | Y |
The treasure on the barn's clean floor | Y |
And take them back for more | Y |
Until the whole bared harvest beauteous lies | Q |
Under our pleased and prosperous eyes | Q |
Then let us give our idlest hour | Z |
To the world's wisdom and its power | Z |
Hear famous Golden Tongue refuse | Q |
To gander sauce that's good for goose | Q |
Or the great Clever Party con | U |
How many grains of sifted sand | A2 |
Heap'd make a likely house to stand | A2 |
How many fools one Solomon | U |
Science beyond all other lust | B2 |
Endow'd with appetite for dust | B2 |
We glance at where it grunts well sty'd | B2 |
And pass upon the other side | B2 |
Pass also by in pensive mood | B2 |
Taught by thy kind twin sister Certitude | B2 |
Yon puzzled crowd whose tired intent | B2 |
Hunts like a pack without a scent | B2 |
And now come home | C2 |
Where none of our mild days | Q |
Can fail though simple to confess | Q |
The magic of mysteriousness | Q |
For there 'bide charming Wonders three | A |
Besides Sweet thee | A |
To comprehend whose commonest ways | Q |
Ev'n could that be | A |
Were coward's 'vantage and no true man's praise | Q |
Coventry Patmore
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