Verses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDDEE DEFEGHGH IIJKKKKGG| When pride and envy and the scorn | A |
| Of wealth my heart with gall imbued | B |
| I thought how pleasant were the morn | A |
| Of silence in the solitude | B |
| To hear the forest bee on wing | C |
| Or by the stream or woodland spring | C |
| To lie and muse alone alone | D |
| While the tinkling waters moan | D |
| Or such wild sounds arise as say | E |
| Man and noise are far away | E |
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| Now surely thought I there's enow | D |
| To fill life's dusty way | E |
| And who will miss a poet's feet | F |
| Or wonder where he stray | E |
| So to the woods and wastes I'll go | G |
| And I will build an osier bower | H |
| And sweetly there to me shall flow | G |
| The meditative hour | H |
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| And when the Autumn's withering hand | I |
| Shall strew with leaves the sylvan land | I |
| I'll to the forest caverns hie | J |
| And in the dark and stormy nights | K |
| I'll listen to the shrieking sprites | K |
| Who in the wintry wolds and floods | K |
| Keep jubilee and shred the woods | K |
| Or as it drifted soft and slow | G |
| Hurl in ten thousand shapes the snow | G |
Henry Kirk White
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