Solitude In September Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCDAEAE FDFDCGCG CHCHDADA IAIAGDGD IJIJAKAK ALALDGCG IDIDGMGM GDGDCACA| O BEATA SOLITUDO O SOLA BEATITUDO | A |
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| Inscription in the Grounds of Burg Birseck near Basel | B |
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| Sweet Solitude where dost thou linger | C |
| When and where shall I look in thy face | D |
| Feel the soft magic touch of thy finger | C |
| The glow of thy silent embrace | D |
| Stern Civilization has banished | A |
| Thy charms to a region unknown | E |
| The spell of thy beauty has vanished | A |
| Sweet Solitude where hast thou flown | E |
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| I have sought thee on pampas and prairie | F |
| By blue lake and bluer crevasse | D |
| On shores that are arid and airy | F |
| Lone peak and precipitous pass | D |
| I have sought thee sweet Solitude ever | C |
| Regardless of peril and pain | G |
| But in spite of my utmost endeavour | C |
| I have sought thee fair charmer in vain | G |
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| To the Alps to the Alps in September | C |
| Unconducted by Cook did I rush | H |
| Full well even now I remember | C |
| How my heart with emotion did gush | H |
| Here at least in these lonely recesses | D |
| With thee I shall cast in my lot | A |
| Shall feel thy endearing caresses | D |
| Forgetting all else and forgot | A |
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| But I met a young couple proposing | I |
| On the top of the sunny Languard | A |
| I surprised an old gentleman dozing | I |
| Times in hand on the heights of Fort Bard | A |
| In the fir woods of sweet Pontresina | G |
| Picnic papers polluted the walks | D |
| On the top of the frosty Bernina | G |
| I found a young mountain of corks | D |
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| I trod by the falls of the Handeck | I |
| On the end of a penny cigar | J |
| As I roamed in the woods above Landeck | I |
| A hair pin my pleasure did mar | J |
| To the Riffel in vain I retreated | A |
| Mr Gaze and the Gazers were there | K |
| On the top of the Matterhorn seated | A |
| I picked up a lady's back hair | K |
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| From the Belle Vue in Thun I was hunted | A |
| By 'Arry who wished to play pool | L |
| On the Col du Bonhomme I confronted | A |
| The whole of a young ladies' school | L |
| At Giacomo's Inn in Chiesa | D |
| I was asked to take shares in a mine | G |
| With an agent for Mappin's new Razor | C |
| I sat down at Baveno to dine | G |
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| On the waves of Lake Leman were floating | I |
| Old lemons imagine my feelings | D |
| The fish in Lucerne were all gloating | I |
| On cast away salads and peelings | D |
| And egg shells and old bones of chicken | G |
| On the shore of St Moritz did lie | M |
| My spirit within me did sicken | G |
| Sweet Solitude where shall I fly | M |
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| Disconsolate gloomy and undone | G |
| I take in the Dilly my place | D |
| By Zurich and Basel to London | G |
| I rush as if running a race | D |
| My quest and my troubles are over | C |
| As I drive through the desolate street | A |
| To my Club in Pall Mall I discover | C |
| Sweet Solitude's summer retreat | A |
Edward Woodley Bowling
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