The Country Retreat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH JKJK LBLB MNMN OPOP QRQR STSTHUHU VWVW| OH lone and lovely solitude | A |
| Washed by the sounding sea | B |
| Nature was in a poet's mood | A |
| When she created thee | B |
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| How pleasant in the hour of noon | C |
| To wander through the shade | D |
| The soft and golden shade which June | C |
| Flings o'er thy inland glade | D |
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| The wild rose like a wreath above | E |
| The ash tree's fairy keys | F |
| The aspen trembling as if love | E |
| Were whispered by the breeze | F |
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| These or the beech's darker bough | G |
| For canopy o'er head | H |
| While moss and fragile flowers below | I |
| An elfin pillow spread | H |
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| Here one might dream the hours away | J |
| As if the world had not | K |
| Or grief or care or disarray | J |
| To darken human lot | K |
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| Yet 'tis not here that I would dwell | L |
| Though fair the place may be | B |
| The summer's favourite citadel | L |
| A busier scene for me | B |
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| I love to see the human face | M |
| Reflect the human mind | N |
| To watch in every crowded place | M |
| Their opposites combined | N |
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| There's more for thought in one brief hour | O |
| In yonder busy street | P |
| Than all that ever leaf or flower | O |
| Taught in their green retreat | P |
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| Industry intellect and skill | Q |
| Appear in all their pride | R |
| The glorious force of human will | Q |
| Triumphs on every side | R |
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| Yet touched with meekness for on all | S |
| Is set the sign and seal | T |
| Of sorrow suffering and thrall | S |
| Which none but own and feel | T |
| The hearse that passes with its dead | H |
| The homeless beggar's prayer | U |
| Speak words of warning and of dread | H |
| To every passer there | U |
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| Aye beautiful the dreaming brought | V |
| By valleys and green fields | W |
| But deeper feeling higher thought | V |
| Is what the city yields | W |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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