Epithalamion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDCEFFECB GDGEE HHGHHHIIJKILMLJJHJJJ JHJJDHHDN JJFHark 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 |
- | |
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 |
- | |
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 |
- | |
- | |
Father mother brothers sisters friends | J |
Into fairy trees wild flowers wood ferns | J |
Rank egrave d round the bower | F |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about Epithalamion poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Best Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins