The Deserted Cottage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCB DEDFFE GCGHHC EEEIIE EJEKKJ LEMEEE EJEEEJ NJNEEJ EJEEEJ EJEOOJ EPEQQP HCHRRC NSNCCS CECTTE SJSEEJ EBECCB RERUVEWho dwelt in yonder lonely Cot | A |
Why is it thus forsaken | B |
It seems by all the world forgot | A |
Above its path the high grass grows | C |
And through its thatch the northwind blows | C |
Its thatch by tempests shaken | B |
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And yet it tops a verdant hill | D |
By Summer gales surrounded | E |
Beneath its door a shallow rill | D |
Runs brawling to the vale below | F |
And near it sweetest flowrets grow | F |
By banks of willow bounded | E |
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Then why is ev'ry casement dark | G |
Why looks the Cot so chearless | C |
Ah why does ruin seem to mark | G |
The calm retreat where LOVE should dwell | H |
And FRIENDSHIP teach the heart to swell | H |
With rapture pure and fearless | C |
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There far above the busy croud | E |
Man may repose in quiet | E |
There smile that he has left the proud | E |
And blest with liberty enjoy | I |
More than Ambition's gilded toy | I |
Or Folly's sick'ning riot | E |
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For there the ever tranquil mind | E |
On calm Religion resting | J |
May in each lonely labyrinth find | E |
The DEITY whose boundless pow'r | K |
Directs the blast or tints the flow'r | K |
No mortal foe molesting | J |
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Stranger yon spot was once the scene | L |
Where peace and joy resided | E |
And oft the merry time has been | M |
When Love and Friendship warm'd the breast | E |
And Freedom making wealth a jest | E |
The pride of Pomp derided | E |
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Old JACOB was the Cottage Lord | E |
His wide domain surrounding | J |
By Nature's treasure amply stor'd | E |
He from his casement could behold | E |
The breezy mountain ting'd with gold | E |
The varied landscape bounding | J |
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The coming morn with lustre gay | N |
Breath'd sweetly on his dwelling | J |
The twilight veil of parting day | N |
Stole softly o'er his quiet shed | E |
Hiding the mountain's misty head | E |
Where the night breeze was swelling | J |
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One lovely Girl Old JACOB rear'd | E |
And she was fair and blooming | J |
She like the morning Star appear'd | E |
Swift gliding o'er the mountain's crest | E |
While her blue eyes her soul confess'd | E |
No borrow'd rays assuming | J |
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'Twas her's the vagrant lamb to lead | E |
To watch the wild goat playing | J |
To join the Shepherd's tuneful reed | E |
And when the sultry Sun rose high | O |
To tend the Herds deep lowing nigh | O |
Where the swift brook was straying | J |
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One sturdy Boy a younker bold | E |
Ere they were doom'd to sever | P |
Maintain'd poor JACOB sick and old | E |
But now where yon tall poplars wave | Q |
Pale primroses adorn the grave | Q |
Where JACOB sleeps for Ever | P |
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Young in the wars the brave Boy fell | H |
His Sister died of sadness | C |
But one remain'd their fate to tell | H |
For JACOB now was left alone | R |
And he alas was helpless grown | R |
And pin'd in moody madness | C |
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At night by moonshine would he stray | N |
Along the upland dreary | S |
And talking wildly all the way | N |
Would fancy 'till the Sun uprose | C |
That Heav'n in pity mark'd the woes | C |
Of which his soul was weary | S |
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One morn upon the dewy grass | C |
Poor JACOB's sorrows ended | E |
The woodland's narrow winding pass | C |
Was his last scene of lonely care | T |
For gentle Stranger lifeless there | T |
Was JACOB'S form extended | E |
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He lies beneath yon Poplar tree | S |
That tops the church yard sighing | J |
For sighing oft it seems to be | S |
And as its waving leaves around | E |
With morning's tears begem the ground | E |
The Zephyr trembles flying | J |
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And now behold yon little Cot | E |
All dreary and forsaken | B |
And know that soon 'twill be thy lot | E |
To fall like Jacob and his race | C |
And leave on Time's swift wing no trace | C |
Which way thy course is taken | B |
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Yet if for Truth and feeling known | R |
Thou still shalt be lamented | E |
For when thy parting sigh has flown | R |
Fond MEM'RY on thy grave shall give | U |
A tear to bid thy VIRTUES live | V |
Then Smile AND BE CONTENTED | E |
Mary Darby Robinson
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