The Hermit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFE GHGIJIK LMLMNONP FNFNJQKQ RSRSTUTU IJIJVWV| At the close of day when the hamlet is still | A |
| And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove | B |
| When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill | A |
| And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove | C |
| 'Twas thus by the cave of the mountain afar | D |
| While his harp rung symphonious a Hermit began | E |
| No more with himself or with nature at war | F |
| He thought as a Sage though he felt as a Man | E |
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| 'Ah why all abandon'd to darkness and wo | G |
| Why lone Philomela that languishing fall | H |
| For Spring shall return and a lover bestow | G |
| But if pity inspire thee renew the sad lay | I |
| Mourn sweetest complainer man calls thee to mourn | J |
| O soothe him whose pleasures like thine pass away | I |
| Full quickly they pass but they never return | K |
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| 'Now gliding remote on the verge of the sky | L |
| The Moon half extinguish'd her crescent displays | M |
| But lately I mark'd when majestic on high | L |
| She shone and the planets were lost in her blaze | M |
| Roll on thou fair orb and with gladness pursue | N |
| The path that conducts thee to splendour again | O |
| But Man's faded glory what change shall renew | N |
| Ah fool to exult in a glory so vain | P |
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| ''Tis night and the landscape is lovely no more | F |
| I mourn but ye woodlands I mourn not for you | N |
| For morn is approaching your charms to restore | F |
| Perfumed with fresh fragrance with glittering dew | N |
| Nor yet for the ravage of winter I mourn | J |
| Kind Nature the embryo blossom will save | Q |
| But when shall Spring visit the mouldering urn | K |
| O when shall it dawn on the night of the grave | Q |
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| ''Twas thus by the glare of false Science betray'd | R |
| That leads to bewilder and dazzles to blind | S |
| My thoughts wont to roam from shade onward to shade | R |
| Destruction before me and sorrow behind | S |
| 'O pity great Father of light ' then I cried | T |
| 'Thy creature who fain would not wander from Thee | U |
| Lo humbled in dust I relinquish my pride | T |
| From doubt and from darkness thou only canst free | U |
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| 'And darkness and doubt are now flying away | I |
| No longer I roam in conjecture forlorn | J |
| So breaks on the traveller faint and astray | I |
| The bright and the balmy effulgence of morn | J |
| see Truth Love and Mercy in triumph descending | V |
| And Nature all glowing in Eden's first bloom | W |
| On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending | V |
| And Beauty Immortal awakes from the tomb ' | - |
James Beattie
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