A Poet's Home Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGHHIIJJKL MMNNMMOPQQEEQQDDMMRR EQSSTUQQVVWW XXQEYY WZMMEEWA2MMB2C2| Two pretty rills do meet and meeting make | A |
| Within one valley a large silver lake | A |
| About whose banks the fertile mountains stood | B |
| In ages pass d bravely crowned with wood | B |
| Which lending cold sweet shadows gave it grace | C |
| To be accounted Cynthia's bathing place | C |
| And from her father Neptune's brackish court | D |
| Fair Thetis thither often would resort | D |
| Attended by the fishes of the sea | E |
| Which in those sweeter waters came to plea | E |
| There would the daughter of the Sea God dive | F |
| And thither came the Land Nymphs every eve | G |
| To wait upon her bringing for her brows | H |
| Rich garlands of sweet flowers and beechy boughs | H |
| For pleasant was that pool and near it then | I |
| Was neither rotten marsh nor boggy fen | I |
| It was nor overgrown with boisterous sedge | J |
| Nor grew there rudely then along the edge | J |
| A bending willow nor a prickly bush | K |
| Nor broad leaved flag nor reed nor knotty rush | L |
| But here well ordered was a grove with bowers | M |
| There grassy plots set round about with flowers | M |
| Here you might through the water see the land | N |
| Appear strowed o'er with white or yellow sand | N |
| Yon deeper was it and the wind by whiffs | M |
| Would make it rise and wash the little cliffs | M |
| On which oft pluming sat unfrighted than | O |
| The gaggling wild goose and the snow white swan | P |
| With all those flocks of fowls which to this day | Q |
| Upon those quiet waters breed and play | Q |
| For though those excellences wanting be | E |
| Which once it had it is the same that we | E |
| By transposition name the Ford of Arle | Q |
| And out of which along a chalky marle | Q |
| That river trills whose waters wash the fort | D |
| In which brave Arthur kept his royal court | D |
| North east not far from this great pool there lies | M |
| A tract of beechy mountains that arise | M |
| With leisurely ascending to such height | R |
| As from their tops the warlike Isle of Wight | R |
| You in the ocean's bosom may espy | E |
| Though near two furlongs thence it lie | Q |
| The pleasant way as up those hills you climb | S |
| Is strew d o'er with marjoram and thyme | S |
| Which grows unset The hedgerows do not want | T |
| The cowslip violet primrose nor a plant | U |
| That freshly scents as birch both green and tall | Q |
| Low sallows on whose blooming bees do fall | Q |
| Fair woodbines which about the hedges twine | V |
| Smooth privet and the sharp sweet eglantine | V |
| With many moe whose leaves and blossoms fair | W |
| The earth adorn and oft perfume the air | W |
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| When you unto the highest do attain | X |
| An intermixture both of wood and plain | X |
| You shall behold which though aloft it lie | Q |
| Hath downs for sheep and fields for husbandry | E |
| So much at least as little needeth more | Y |
| If not enough to merchandise their store | Y |
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| In every row hath nature planted there | W |
| Some banquet for the hungry passenger | Z |
| For here the hazel nut and filbert grows | M |
| There bullice and a little farther sloes | M |
| On this hand standeth a fair weilding tree | E |
| On that large thickets of blackberries be | E |
| The shrubby fields are raspice orchards there | W |
| The new felled woods like strawberry gardens are | A2 |
| And had the King of Rivers blessed those hills | M |
| With some small number of such pretty rills | M |
| As flow elsewhere Arcadia had not seen | B2 |
| A sweeter plot of earth than this had been | C2 |
George Wither
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