Lines Written In The Highlands After A Visit To Burns's Country Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJII KKGGHHLLHHMMNNDDOOPQ GGIIRRThere is a charm in footing slow across a silent plain | A |
Where patriot battle has been fought where glory had the gain | A |
There is a pleasure on the heath where Druids old have been | B |
Where mantles grey have rustled by and swept the nettles green | C |
There is a joy in every spot made known by times of old | D |
New to the feet although each tale a hundred times be told | D |
There is a deeper joy than all more solemn in the heart | E |
More parching to the tongue than all of more divine a smart | E |
When weary steps forget themselves upon a pleasant turf | F |
Upon hot sand or flinty road or sea shore iron scurf | F |
Toward the castle or the cot where long ago was born | G |
One who was great through mortal days and died of fame unshorn | G |
Light heather bells may tremble then but they are far away | H |
Wood lark may sing from sandy fern the Sun may hear this lay | H |
Runnels may kiss the grass on shelves and shallows clear | I |
But their low voices are not heard though come on travels drear | I |
Blood red the Sun may set behind the black mountain peaks | J |
Blue tides may sluice and drench their time in caves and weedy creeks | J |
Eagles may seem to sleep wing side upon the air | I |
Ring dove may fly convuls'd across to some high cedar'd lair | I |
But the forgotten eye is still fast lidded to the ground | K |
As Palmer's that with weariness mid desert shrine hath found | K |
At such a time the soul's a child in childhood is the brain | G |
Forgotten is the worldly heart alone it beats in vain | G |
Aye if a madman could have leave to pass a healthful day | H |
To tell his forehead's swoon and faint when first began decay | H |
He might make tremble many a one whose spirit had gone forth | L |
To find a Bard's low cradle place about the silent North | L |
Scanty the hour and few the steps because a longer stay | H |
Would bar return and make a man forget his mortal way | H |
O horrible to lose the sight of well remember'd face | M |
Of Brother's eyes of Sister's brow constant to every place | M |
Filling the air as on we move with portraiture intense | N |
More warm than those heroic tints that pain a painter's sense | N |
When shapes of old come striding by and visages of old | D |
Locks shining black hair scanty grey and passions manifold | D |
No no that horror cannot be for at the cable's length | O |
Man feels the gentle anchor pull and gladdens in its strength | O |
One hour half idiot he stands by mossy waterfall | P |
But in the very next he reads his soul's memorial | Q |
He reads it on the mountain's height where chance he may sit down | G |
Upon rough marble diadem that hill's eternal crown | G |
Yet be his anchor e'er so fast room is there for a prayer | I |
That man may never lose his mind on mountains black and bare | I |
That he may stray league after league some great birth place to find | R |
And keep his vision clear from speck his inward sight unblind | R |
John Keats
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