Epithalamion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDCEFFECB GDGEE HHGHHHIIJKILMLJJHJJJ JHJJDHHDN JJF| Hark hearer hear what I do lend a thought now make believe | A |
| We are leafwhelmed somewhere with the hood | B |
| Of some branchy bunchy bushybowered wood | B |
| Southern dene or Lancashire clough or Devon cleave | A |
| That leans along the loins of hills where a candycoloured where a gluegold brown | C |
| Marbled river boisterously beautiful between | D |
| Roots and rocks is danced and dandled all in froth and waterblowballs down | C |
| We are there when we hear a shout | E |
| That the hanging honeysuck the dogeared hazels in the cover | F |
| Makes dither makes hover | F |
| And the riot of a rout | E |
| Of it must be boys from the town | C |
| Bathing it is summer's sovereign good | B |
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| By there comes a listless stranger beckoned by the noise | G |
| He drops towards the river unseen | D |
| Sees the bevy of them how the boys | G |
| With dare and with downdolphinry and bellbright bodies huddling out | E |
| Are earthworld airworld waterworld thorough hurled all by turn and turn about | E |
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| This garland of their gambols flashes in his breast | H |
| Into such a sudden zest | H |
| Of summertime joys | G |
| That he hies to a pool neighbouring sees it is the best | H |
| There sweetest freshest shadowiest | H |
| Fairyland silk beech scrolled ash packed sycamore wild wychelm hornbeam fretty overstood | H |
| By Rafts and rafts of flake leaves light dealt so painted on the air | I |
| Hang as still as hawk or hawkmoth as the stars or as the angels there | I |
| Like the thing that never knew the earth never off roots | J |
| Rose Here he feasts lovely all is No more off with down he dings | K |
| His bleach egrave d both and woolwoven wear | I |
| Careless these in coloured wisp | L |
| All lie tumbled to then with loop locks | M |
| Forward falling forehead frowning lips crisp | L |
| Over finger teasing task his twiny boots | J |
| Fast he opens last he offwrings | J |
| Till walk the world he can with bare his feet | H |
| And come where lies a coffer burly all of blocks | J |
| Built of chancequarri egrave d selfquain egrave d rocks | J |
| And the water warbles over into filleted with glassy grassy quicksilvery shiv egrave s and shoots | J |
| And with heavenfallen freshness down from moorland still brims | J |
| Dark or daylight on and on Here he will then here he will the fleet | H |
| Flinty kindcold element let break across his limbs | J |
| Long Where we leave him froliclavish while he looks about him laughs swims | J |
| Enough now since the sacred matter that I mean | D |
| I should be wronging longer leaving it to float | H |
| Upon this only gambolling and echoing of earth note | H |
| What is the delightful dene | D |
| Wedlock What the water Spousal love | N |
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| Father mother brothers sisters friends | J |
| Into fairy trees wild flowers wood ferns | J |
| Rank egrave d round the bower | F |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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