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The Recluse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHIHJJ KLKLMM HNHNOP QRQRSS THTHHH

A fountain issuing into lightA
Before a marble palace threwB
To heaven its column pure and brightA
Returning thence in showers of dewB
But soon a humbler course it tookC
And glide away a nameless brookC
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Flowers on its grassy margin sprangD
Flies o'er its eddying surface play'dE
Birds 'midst the alder branches sangD
Flocks through the verdant meadows stray'dE
The weary there lay down to restF
And there the halcyon built her nestF
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'Twas beautiful to stand and watchG
The fountain's crystal turn to gemsH
And from the sky such colours catchI
As if 'twere raining diademsH
Yet all was cold and curious artJ
That charm'd the eye but miss'd the heartJ
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Dearer to me the little streamK
Whose unimprison'd waters runL
Wild as the changes of a dreamK
By rock and glen through shade and sunL
Its lovely links had power to bindM
In welcome chains my wandering mindM
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So thought I when I saw the faceH
By happy portraiture reveal'dN
Of one adorn'd with every graceH
Her name and date from me conceal'dN
But not her story she had beenO
The pride of many a splendid sceneP
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She cast her glory round a courtQ
And frolick'd in the gayest ringR
Where fashion's high born minions sportQ
Like sparkling fire flies on the wingR
But thence when love had touch'd her soulS
To nature and to truth she stoleS
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From din and pageantry and strifeT
'Midst woods and mountains vales and plainsH
She treads the paths of lowly lifeT
Yet in a bosom circle reignsH
No fountain scattering diamond showersH
But the sweet streamlet watering flowersH

James Montgomery



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