The Lark Ascending Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGHDDIIJJ KKLLMMNOLLPPHGQQLLRS TTUVDDWWXXDDDDYYLLDD DDZZ DDA2A2DDYYYYDDDDB2B2 LLC2C2DDD2D2ZZZZLLDD DD GHZZZZYYE2E2ZZZZYYDD DDF2F2DD

He rises and begins to roundA
He drops the silver chain of soundA
Of many links without a breakB
In chirrup whistle slur and shakeB
All intervolv d and spreading wideC
Like water dimples down a tideC
Where ripple ripple overcurlsD
And eddy into eddy whirlsD
A press of hurried notes that runE
So fleet they scarce are more than oneE
Yet changingly the trills repeatF
And linger ringing while they fleetF
Sweet to the quick o the ear and dearG
To her beyond the handmaid earH
Who sits beside our inner springsD
Too often dry for this he bringsD
Which seems the very jet of earthI
At sight of sun her musci s mirthI
As up he wings the spiral stairJ
A song of light and pierces airJ
With fountain ardor fountain playK
To reach the shining tops of dayK
And drink in everything discern dL
An ecstasy to music turn dL
Impell d by what his happy billM
Disperses drinking showering stillM
Unthinking save that he may giveN
His voice the outlet there to liveO
Renew d in endless notes of gleeL
So thirsty of his voice is heL
For all to hear and all to knowP
That he is joy awake aglowP
The tumult of the heart to hearH
Through pureness filter d crystal clearG
And know the pleasure sprinkled brightQ
By simple singing of delightQ
Shrill irreflective unrestrain dL
Rapt ringing on the jet sustain dL
Without a break without a fallR
Sweet silvery sheer lyricalS
Perennial quavering up the chordT
Like myriad dews of sunny swardT
That trembling into fulness shineU
And sparkle dropping argentineV
Such wooing as the ear receivesD
From zephyr caught in choric leavesD
Of aspens when their chattering netW
Is flush d to white with shivers wetW
And such the water spirit s chimeX
On mountain heights in morning s primeX
Too freshly sweet to seem excessD
Too animate to need a stressD
But wider over many headsD
The starry voice ascending spreadsD
Awakening as it waxes thinY
The best in us to him akinY
And every face to watch him rais dL
Puts on the light of children prais dL
So rich our human pleasure ripesD
When sweetness on sincereness pipesD
Though nought be promis d from the seasD
But only a soft ruffling breezeD
Sweep glittering on a still contentZ
Serenity in ravishmentZ
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For singing till his heaven fillsD
T is love of earth that he instilsD
And ever winging up and upA2
Our valley is his golden cupA2
And he the wine which overflowsD
To lift us with him as he goesD
The woods and brooks the sheep and kineY
He is the hills the human lineY
The meadows green the fallows brownY
The dreams of labor in the townY
He sings the sap the quicken d veinsD
The wedding song of sun and rainsD
He is the dance of children thanksD
Of sowers shout of primrose banksD
And eye of violets while they breatheB2
All these the circling song will wreatheB2
And you shall hear the herb and treeL
The better heart of men shall seeL
Shall feel celestially as longC2
As you crave nothing save the songC2
Was never voice of ours could sayD
Our inmost in the sweetest wayD
Like yonder voice aloft and linkD2
All hearers in the song they drinkD2
Our wisdom speaks from failing bloodZ
Our passion is too full in floodZ
We want the key of his wild noteZ
Of truthful in a tuneful throatZ
The song seraphically freeL
Of taint of personalityL
So pure that it salutes the sunsD
The voice of one for millionsD
In whom the millions rejoiceD
For giving their one spirit voiceD
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Yet men have we whom we revereG
Now names and men still housing hereH
Whose lives by many a battle dintZ
Defaced and grinding wheels on flintZ
Yield substance though they sing not sweetZ
For song our highest heaven to greetZ
Whom heavenly singing gives us newY
Enspheres them brilliant in our blueY
From firmest base to farthest leapE2
Because their love of Earth is deepE2
And they are warriors in accordZ
With life to serve and pass rewardZ
So touching purest and so heardZ
In the brain s reflex of yon birdZ
Wherefore their soul in me or mineY
Through self forgetfulness divineY
In them that song aloft maintainsD
To fill the sky and thrill the plainsD
With showerings drawn from human storesD
As he to silence nearer soarsD
Extends the world at wings and domeF2
More spacious making more our homeF2
Till lost on his a rial ringsD
In light and then the fancy singsD

George Meredith



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