After A Lecture On Wordsworth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD ACAC EFEF GHGH ICIC JKJK LFLF MCMC NANA OPOP QKRK STST CKCK UVUV CFCF PVPV CWCW CXCX CJCJ YAYA ZCZC LA2LA2 B2C2B2C2 D2ND2N

COME spread your wings as I spread mineA
And leave the crowded hallB
For where the eyes of twilight shineA
O'er evening's western wallB
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These are the pleasant Berkshire hillsC
Each with its leafy crownD
Hark from their sides a thousand rillsC
Come singing sweetly downD
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A thousand rills they leap and shineA
Strained through the shadowy nooksC
Till clasped in many a gathering twineA
They swell a hundred brooksC
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A hundred brooks and still they runE
With ripple shade and gleamF
Till clustering all their braids in oneE
They flow a single streamF
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A bracelet spun from mountain mistG
A silvery sash unwoundH
With ox bow curve and sinuous twistG
It writhes to reach the SoundH
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This is my bark a pygmy's shipI
Beneath a child it rollsC
Fear not one body makes it dipI
But not a thousand soulsC
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Float we the grassy banks betweenJ
Without an oar we glideK
The meadows drest in living greenJ
Unroll on either sideK
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Come take the book we love so wellL
And let us read and dreamF
We see whate'er its pages tellL
And sail an English streamF
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Up to the clouds the lark has sprungM
Still trilling as he fliesC
The linnet sings as there he sungM
The unseen cuckoo criesC
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And daisies strew the banks alongN
And yellow kingcups shineA
With cowslips and a primrose throngN
And humble celandineA
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Ah foolish dream when Nature nursedO
Her daughter in the WestP
The fount was drained that opened firstO
She bared her other breastP
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On the young planet's orient shoreQ
Her morning hand she triedK
Then turned the broad medallion o'erR
And stamped the sunset sideK
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Take what she gives her pine's tall stemS
Her elm with hanging sprayT
She wears her mountain diademS
Still in her own proud wayT
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Look on the forests' ancient kingsC
The hemlock's towering prideK
Yon trunk had thrice a hundred ringsC
And fell before it diedK
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Nor think that Nature saves her bloomU
And slights our grassy plainV
For us she wears her court costumeU
Look on its broidered trainV
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The lily with the sprinkled dotsC
Brands of the noontide beamF
The cardinal and the blood red spotsC
Its double in the streamF
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As if some wounded eagle's breastP
Slow throbbing o'er the plainV
Had left its airy path impressedP
In drops of scarlet rainV
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And hark and hark the woodland ringsC
There thrilled the thrush's soulW
And look that flash of flamy wingsC
The fire plumed orioleW
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Above the hen hawk swims and swoopsC
Flung from the bright blue skyX
Below the robin hops and whoopsC
His piercing Indian cryX
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Beauty runs virgin in the woodsC
Robed in her rustic greenJ
And oft a longing thought intrudesC
As if we might have seenJ
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Her every finger's every jointY
Ringed with some golden lineA
Poet whom Nature did anointY
Had our wild home been thineA
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Yet think not so Old England's bloodZ
Runs warm in English veinsC
But wafted o'er the icy floodZ
Its better life remainsC
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Our children know each wildwood smellL
The bayberry and the fernA2
The man who does not know them wellL
Is all too old to learnA2
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Be patient On the breathing pageB2
Still pants our hurried pastC2
Pilgrim and soldier saint and sageB2
The poet comes the lastC2
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Though still the lark voiced matins ringD2
The world has known so longN
The wood thrush of the West shall singD2
Earth's last sweet even songN

Oliver Wendell Holmes



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