Fragment (the Western Gale) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEGHIJKELMN NAEOPQREE EEESTSE SISIEUEVIO SSEIWE XSEESEESEE YQSEESZEYE

The western galeA
Mild as the kisses of connubial loveB
Plays round my languid limbs as all dissolvedC
Beneath the ancient elm's fantastic shadeD
I lie exhausted with the noontide heatE
While rippling o'er its deep worn pebble bedF
The rapid rivulet rushes at my feetE
Dispensing coolness On the fringed margeG
Full many a floweret rears its head or pinkH
Or gaudy daffodil 'Tis here at noonI
The buskin'd wood nymphs from the heat retireJ
And lave them in the fountain here secureK
From Pan or savage satyr they disportE
Or stretch'd supinely on the velvet turfL
Lull'd by the laden bee or sultry flyM
Invoke the god of slumberN
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And hark how merrily from distant towerN
Ring round the village bells now on the galeA
They rise with gradual swell distinct and loudE
Anon they die upon the pensive earO
Melting in faintest music They bespeakP
A day of jubilee and oft they bearQ
Commix'd along the unfrequented shoreR
The sound of village dance and tabor loudE
Startling the musing ear of SolitudeE
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Such is the jocund wake of WhitsuntideE
When happy Superstition gabbling eldE
Holds her unhurtful gambols All the dayE
The rustic revellers ply the mazy danceS
On the smooth shaven green and then at eveT
Commence the harmless rites and auguriesS
And many a tale of ancient days goes roundE
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They tell of wizard seer whose potent spellsS
Could hold in dreadful thrall the labouring moonI
Or draw the fix'd stars from their eminenceS
And still the midnight tempest Then anonI
Tell of uncharnel'd spectres seen to glideE
Along the lone wood's unfrequented pathU
Startling the 'nighted traveller while the soundE
Of undistinguished murmurs heard to comeV
From the dark centre of the deepening glenI
Struck on his frozen earO
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Oh IgnoranceS
Thou art fallen man's best friend With thee he speedsS
In frigid apathy along his wayE
And never does the tear of agonyI
Burn down his scorching cheek or the keen steelW
Of wounded feeling penetrate his breastE
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E'en now as leaning on this fragrant bankX
I taste of all the keener happinessS
Which sense refined affords E'en now my heartE
Would fain induce me to forsake the worldE
Throw off these garments and in shepherd's weedsS
With a small flock and short suspended reedE
To sojourn in the woodland Then my thoughtE
Draws such gay pictures of ideal blissS
That I could almost err in reason's spiteE
And trespass on my judgmentE
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Such is lifeY
The distant prospect always seems more fairQ
And when attain'd another still succeedsS
Far fairer than before yet compass'd roundE
With the same dangers and the same dismayE
And we poor pilgrims in this dreary mazeS
Still discontented chase the fairy formZ
Of unsubstantial Happiness to findE
When life itself is sinking in the strifeY
'Tis but an airy bubble and a cheatE

Henry Kirk White



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