Epithalamion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDCEFFECB GDGEE HHGHHHIIJKILMLJJHJJJ JHJJDHHDN JJF

Hark hearer hear what I do lend a thought now make believeA
We are leafwhelmed somewhere with the hoodB
Of some branchy bunchy bushybowered woodB
Southern dene or Lancashire clough or Devon cleaveA
That leans along the loins of hills where a candycoloured where a gluegold brownC
Marbled river boisterously beautiful betweenD
Roots and rocks is danced and dandled all in froth and waterblowballs downC
We are there when we hear a shoutE
That the hanging honeysuck the dogeared hazels in the coverF
Makes dither makes hoverF
And the riot of a routE
Of it must be boys from the townC
Bathing it is summer's sovereign goodB
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By there comes a listless stranger beckoned by the noiseG
He drops towards the river unseenD
Sees the bevy of them how the boysG
With dare and with downdolphinry and bellbright bodies huddling outE
Are earthworld airworld waterworld thorough hurled all by turn and turn aboutE
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This garland of their gambols flashes in his breastH
Into such a sudden zestH
Of summertime joysG
That he hies to a pool neighbouring sees it is the bestH
There sweetest freshest shadowiestH
Fairyland silk beech scrolled ash packed sycamore wild wychelm hornbeam fretty overstoodH
By Rafts and rafts of flake leaves light dealt so painted on the airI
Hang as still as hawk or hawkmoth as the stars or as the angels thereI
Like the thing that never knew the earth never off rootsJ
Rose Here he feasts lovely all is No more off with down he dingsK
His bleach egrave d both and woolwoven wearI
Careless these in coloured wispL
All lie tumbled to then with loop locksM
Forward falling forehead frowning lips crispL
Over finger teasing task his twiny bootsJ
Fast he opens last he offwringsJ
Till walk the world he can with bare his feetH
And come where lies a coffer burly all of blocksJ
Built of chancequarri egrave d selfquain egrave d rocksJ
And the water warbles over into filleted with glassy grassy quicksilvery shiv egrave s and shootsJ
And with heavenfallen freshness down from moorland still brimsJ
Dark or daylight on and on Here he will then here he will the fleetH
Flinty kindcold element let break across his limbsJ
Long Where we leave him froliclavish while he looks about him laughs swimsJ
Enough now since the sacred matter that I meanD
I should be wronging longer leaving it to floatH
Upon this only gambolling and echoing of earth noteH
What is the delightful deneD
Wedlock What the water Spousal loveN
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Father mother brothers sisters friendsJ
Into fairy trees wild flowers wood fernsJ
Rank egrave d round the bowerF

Gerard Manley Hopkins



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