Lines Written In The Bay Of Lerici Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKEELLMENNOOPQRRSTCC UUVVWWKKXXYZShe left me at the silent time | A |
When the moon had ceas'd to climb | A |
The azure path of Heaven's steep | B |
And like an albatross asleep | B |
Balanc'd on her wings of light | C |
Hover'd in the purple night | C |
Ere she sought her ocean nest | D |
In the chambers of the West | D |
She left me and I stay'd alone | E |
Thinking over every tone | E |
Which though silent to the ear | F |
The enchanted heart could hear | F |
Like notes which die when born but still | G |
Haunt the echoes of the hill | G |
And feeling ever oh too much | H |
The soft vibration of her touch | H |
As if her gentle hand even now | I |
Lightly trembled on my brow | I |
And thus although she absent were | J |
Memory gave me all of her | J |
That even Fancy dares to claim | K |
Her presence had made weak and tame | K |
All passions and I lived alone | E |
In the time which is our own | E |
The past and future were forgot | L |
As they had been and would be not | L |
But soon the guardian angel gone | M |
The daemon reassum'd his throne | E |
In my faint heart I dare not speak | N |
My thoughts but thus disturb'd and weak | N |
I sat and saw the vessels glide | O |
Over the ocean bright and wide | O |
Like spirit winged chariots sent | P |
O'er some serenest element | Q |
For ministrations strange and far | R |
As if to some Elysian star | R |
Sailed for drink to medicine | S |
Such sweet and bitter pain as mine | T |
And the wind that wing'd their flight | C |
From the land came fresh and light | C |
And the scent of winged flowers | U |
And the coolness of the hours | U |
Of dew and sweet warmth left by day | V |
Were scatter'd o'er the twinkling bay | V |
And the fisher with his lamp | W |
And spear about the low rocks damp | W |
Crept and struck the fish which came | K |
To worship the delusive flame | K |
Too happy they whose pleasure sought | X |
Extinguishes all sense and thought | X |
Of the regret that pleasure leaves | Y |
Destroying life alone not peace | Z |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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