L-allegro Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCAACDDEECCDFGFDHD IJEEKKLLMMNNIOOPPCQA QQRSQQQQSTTUVVUQUUWU QWXQXQQYYYQQZZQQUA2A 2UB2B2B2B2B2B2B2B2C2 QQQAAQAQ| Felicity | 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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