The Youth Of Nature Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Rais'd are the dripping oarsA
Silent the boat the lakeB
Lovely and soft as a dreamC
Swims in the sheen of the moonD
The mountains stand at its headE
Clear in the pure June nightF
But the valleys are flooded with hazeG
Rydal and Fairfield are thereH
In the shadow Wordsworth lies deadE
So it is so it will be for ayeI
Nature is fresh as of oldJ
Is lovely a mortal is deadE
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The spots which recall him surviveK
For he lent a new life to these hillsL
The Pillar still broods o'er the fieldsM
Which border Ennerdale LakeB
And Egremont sleeps by the seaN
The gleam of The Evening StarO
Twinkles on Grasmere no moreP
But ruin'd and solemn and greyQ
The sheepfold of Michael survivesR
And far to the south the heathS
Still blows in the Quantock coombsT
By the favourite waters of RuthU
These survive yet not without painV
Pain and dejection to nightF
Can I feel that their Poet is goneW
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He grew old in an age he condemn'dX
He look'd on the rushing decayQ
Of the times which had shelter'd his youthU
Felt the dissolving throesY
Of a social order he lov'dZ
Outliv'd his brethren his peersA2
And like the Theban seerB2
Died in his enemies' dayQ
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Cold bubbled the spring of TilphusaA2
Copais lay bright in the moonD
Helicon glass'd in the lakeB
Its firs and afar rose the peaksA2
Of Parnassus snowily clearC2
Thebes was behind him in flamesA2
And the clang of arms in his earB2
When his awe struck captors ledE
The Theban seer to the springD2
Tiresias drank and diedE2
Nor did reviving ThebesA2
See such a prophet againF2
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Well may we mourn when the headE
Of a sacred poet lies lowG2
In an age which can rear them no moreP
The complaining millions of menF2
Darken in labour and painV
But he was a priest to us allH2
Of the wonder and bloom of the worldI2
Which we saw with his eyes and were gladJ2
He is dead and the fruit bearing dayQ
Of his race is past on the earthK2
And darkness returns to our eyesA2
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For oh is it you is it youL2
Moonlight and shadow and lakeB
And mountains that fill us with joyM2
Or the Poet who sings you so wellN2
Is it you O Beauty O GraceA2
O Charm O Romance that we feelO2
Or the voice which reveals what you areO
Are ye like daylight and sunP2
Shar'd and rejoic'd in by allH2
Or are ye immers'd in the massA2
Of matter and hard to extractQ2
Or sunk at the core of the worldI2
Too deep for the most to discernR2
Like stars in the deep of the skyI
Which arise on the glass of the sageS2
But are lost when their watcher is goneW
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They are here' I heard as men heardT2
In Mysian Ida the voiceA2
Of the Mighty Mother or CreteU2
The murmur of Nature replyI
'Loveliness Magic and GraceA2
They are here they are set in the worldI2
They abide and the finest of soulsA2
Has not been thrill'd by them allH2
Nor the dullest been dead to them quiteF
The poet who sings them may dieI
But they are immortal and liveK
For they are the life of the worldI2
Will ye not learn it and knowG2
When ye mourn that a poet is deadE
That the singer was less than his themesA2
Life and Emotion and II
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'More than the singer are theseA2
Weak is the tremor of painV
That thrills in his mournfullest chordV2
To that which once ran through his soulW2
Cold the elation of joyM2
In his gladdest airiest songX2
To that which of old in his youthU
Fill'd him and made him divineY2
Hardly his voice at its bestZ2
Gives us a sense of the aweA3
The vastness the grandeur the gloomB3
Of the unlit gulph of himselfC3
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'Ye know not yourselves and your bardsA2
The clearest the best who have readE
Most in themselves have beheldE
Less than they left unreveal'dE
Ye express not yourselves can ye makeB
With marble with colour with wordE
What charm'd you in others re liveK
Can thy pencil O Artist restoreP
The figure the bloom of thy loveD3
As she was in her morning of springD2
Canst thou paint the ineffable smileE3
Of her eyes as they rested on thineY2
Can the image of life have the glowG2
The motion of life itselfC3
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'Yourselves and your fellows ye know not and meN
The Mateless the One will ye knowG2
Will ye scan me and read me and tellN2
Of the thoughts that ferment in my breastE
My longing my sadness my joyM2
Will ye claim for your great ones the giftE
To have render'd the gleam of my skiesA2
To have echoed the moan of my seasA2
Utter'd the voice of my hillsA2
When your great ones depart will ye sayA2
All things have suffer'd a lossA2
Nature is hid in their graveF3
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'Race after race man after manG3
Have dream'd that my secret was theirsA2
Have thought that I liv'd but for themH3
That they were my glory and joyM2
They are dust they are chang'd they are goneW
I remain '-

Matthew Arnold



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