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 D2ND2NCOME spread your wings as I spread mine | A |
And leave the crowded hall | B |
For where the eyes of twilight shine | A |
O'er evening's western wall | B |
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These are the pleasant Berkshire hills | C |
Each with its leafy crown | D |
Hark from their sides a thousand rills | C |
Come singing sweetly down | D |
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A thousand rills they leap and shine | A |
Strained through the shadowy nooks | C |
Till clasped in many a gathering twine | A |
They swell a hundred brooks | C |
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A hundred brooks and still they run | E |
With ripple shade and gleam | F |
Till clustering all their braids in one | E |
They flow a single stream | F |
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A bracelet spun from mountain mist | G |
A silvery sash unwound | H |
With ox bow curve and sinuous twist | G |
It writhes to reach the Sound | H |
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This is my bark a pygmy's ship | I |
Beneath a child it rolls | C |
Fear not one body makes it dip | I |
But not a thousand souls | C |
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Float we the grassy banks between | J |
Without an oar we glide | K |
The meadows drest in living green | J |
Unroll on either side | K |
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Come take the book we love so well | L |
And let us read and dream | F |
We see whate'er its pages tell | L |
And sail an English stream | F |
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Up to the clouds the lark has sprung | M |
Still trilling as he flies | C |
The linnet sings as there he sung | M |
The unseen cuckoo cries | C |
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And daisies strew the banks along | N |
And yellow kingcups shine | A |
With cowslips and a primrose throng | N |
And humble celandine | A |
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Ah foolish dream when Nature nursed | O |
Her daughter in the West | P |
The fount was drained that opened first | O |
She bared her other breast | P |
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On the young planet's orient shore | Q |
Her morning hand she tried | K |
Then turned the broad medallion o'er | R |
And stamped the sunset side | K |
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Take what she gives her pine's tall stem | S |
Her elm with hanging spray | T |
She wears her mountain diadem | S |
Still in her own proud way | T |
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Look on the forests' ancient kings | C |
The hemlock's towering pride | K |
Yon trunk had thrice a hundred rings | C |
And fell before it died | K |
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Nor think that Nature saves her bloom | U |
And slights our grassy plain | V |
For us she wears her court costume | U |
Look on its broidered train | V |
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The lily with the sprinkled dots | C |
Brands of the noontide beam | F |
The cardinal and the blood red spots | C |
Its double in the stream | F |
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As if some wounded eagle's breast | P |
Slow throbbing o'er the plain | V |
Had left its airy path impressed | P |
In drops of scarlet rain | V |
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And hark and hark the woodland rings | C |
There thrilled the thrush's soul | W |
And look that flash of flamy wings | C |
The fire plumed oriole | W |
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Above the hen hawk swims and swoops | C |
Flung from the bright blue sky | X |
Below the robin hops and whoops | C |
His piercing Indian cry | X |
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Beauty runs virgin in the woods | C |
Robed in her rustic green | J |
And oft a longing thought intrudes | C |
As if we might have seen | J |
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Her every finger's every joint | Y |
Ringed with some golden line | A |
Poet whom Nature did anoint | Y |
Had our wild home been thine | A |
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Yet think not so Old England's blood | Z |
Runs warm in English veins | C |
But wafted o'er the icy flood | Z |
Its better life remains | C |
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Our children know each wildwood smell | L |
The bayberry and the fern | A2 |
The man who does not know them well | L |
Is all too old to learn | A2 |
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Be patient On the breathing page | B2 |
Still pants our hurried past | C2 |
Pilgrim and soldier saint and sage | B2 |
The poet comes the last | C2 |
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Though still the lark voiced matins ring | D2 |
The world has known so long | N |
The wood thrush of the West shall sing | D2 |
Earth's last sweet even song | N |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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