On A Distant View Of The Village And School Of Harrow On The Hill, 1806 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCD AEAE EEEE EFEF ECEC CECE GEGE HFHF HGHG| Oh mihi pr teritos referat si Jupiter annos | A |
| VIRGIL | B |
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| Ye scenes of my childhood whose lov'd recollection | C |
| Embitters the present compar'd with the past | D |
| Where science first dawn'd on the powers of reflection | C |
| And friendships were form'd too romantic to last | D |
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| Where fancy yet joys to retrace the resemblance | A |
| Of comrades in friendship and mischief allied | E |
| How welcome to me your ne'er fading remembrance | A |
| Which rests in the bosom though hope is deny'd | E |
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| Again I revisit the hills where we sported | E |
| The streams where we swam and the fields where we fought | E |
| The school where loud warn'd by the bell we resorted | E |
| To pore o'er the precepts by Pedagogues taught | E |
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| Again I behold where for hours I have ponder'd | E |
| As reclining at eve on yon tombstone I lay | F |
| Or round the steep brow of the churchyard I wander'd | E |
| To catch the last gleam of the sun's setting ray | F |
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| I once more view the room with spectators surrounded | E |
| Where as Zanga I trod on Alonzo o'erthrown | C |
| While to swell my young pride such applauses resounded | E |
| I fancied that Mossop himself was outshone | C |
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| Or as Lear I pour'd forth the deep imprecation | C |
| By my daughters of kingdom and reason depriv'd | E |
| Till fir'd by loud plaudits and self adulation | C |
| I regarded myself as a Garrick reviv'd | E |
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| Ye dreams of my boyhood how much I regret you | G |
| Unfaded your memory dwells in my breast | E |
| Though sad and deserted I ne'er can forget you | G |
| Your pleasures may still be in fancy possest | E |
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| To Ida full oft may remembrance restore me | H |
| While Fate shall the shades of the future unroll | F |
| Since Darkness o'ershadows the prospect before me | H |
| More dear is the beam of the past to my soul | F |
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| But if through the course of the years which await me | H |
| Some new scene of pleasure should open to view | G |
| I will say while with rapture the thought shall elate me | H |
| Oh such were the days which my infancy knew | G |
George Gordon Lord Byron
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