The Spirit Of Poetry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCECFGHCIJCAKLMNC AODAAPQRAQASTAUC VWCCAAAXCYDAZXA2UAB2 ACAThere is a quiet spirit in these woods | A |
That dwells where'er the gentle south wind blows | B |
Where underneath the white thorn in the glade | C |
The wild flowers bloom or kissing the soft air | D |
The leaves above their sunny palms outspread | C |
With what a tender and impassioned voice | E |
It fills the nice and delicate ear of thought | C |
When the fast ushering star of morning comes | F |
O'er riding the gray hills with golden scarf | G |
Or when the cowled and dusky sandaled Eve | H |
In mourning weeds from out the western gate | C |
Departs with silent pace That spirit moves | I |
In the green valley where the silver brook | J |
From its full laver pours the white cascade | C |
And babbling low amid the tangled woods | A |
Slips down through moss grown stones with endless laughter | K |
And frequent on the everlasting hills | L |
Its feet go forth when it doth wrap itself | M |
In all the dark embroidery of the storm | N |
And shouts the stern strong wind And here amid | C |
The silent majesty of these deep woods | A |
Its presence shall uplift thy thoughts from earth | O |
As to the sunshine and the pure bright air | D |
Their tops the green trees lift Hence gifted bards | A |
Have ever loved the calm and quiet shades | A |
For them there was an eloquent voice in all | P |
The sylvan pomp of woods the golden sun | Q |
The flowers the leaves the river on its way | R |
Blue skies and silver clouds and gentle winds | A |
The swelling upland where the sidelong sun | Q |
Aslant the wooded slope at evening goes | A |
Groves through whose broken roof the sky looks in | S |
Mountain and shattered cliff and sunny vale | T |
The distant lake fountains and mighty trees | A |
In many a lazy syllable repeating | U |
Their old poetic legends to the wind | C |
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And this is the sweet spirit that doth fill | V |
The world and in these wayward days of youth | W |
My busy fancy oft embodies it | C |
As a bright image of the light and beauty | C |
That dwell in nature of the heavenly forms | A |
We worship in our dreams and the soft hues | A |
That stain the wild bird's wing and flush the clouds | A |
When the sun sets Within her tender eye | X |
The heaven of April with its changing light | C |
And when it wears the blue of May is hung | Y |
And on her lip the rich red rose Her hair | D |
Is like the summer tresses of the trees | A |
When twilight makes them brown and on her cheek | Z |
Blushes the richness of an autumn sky | X |
With ever shifting beauty Then her breath | A2 |
It is so like the gentle air of Spring | U |
As front the morning's dewy flowers it comes | A |
Full of their fragrance that it is a joy | B2 |
To have it round us and her silver voice | A |
Is the rich music of a summer bird | C |
Heard in the still night with its passionate cadence | A |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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