Matilda Gathering Flowers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA BCB CDE FGD HIH IAJ AKA FLK LMJ MNM NON OPO PQP RFR FSF STU TUV| And earnest to explore within around | A |
| The divine wood whose thick green living woof | B |
| Tempered the young day to the sight I wound | A |
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| Up the green slope beneath the forest s roof | B |
| With slow soft steps leaving the mountain s steep | C |
| And sought those inmost labyrinths motion proof | B |
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| Against the air that in that stillness deep | C |
| And solemn struck upon my forehead bare | D |
| The slow soft stroke of a continuous | E |
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| In which the leaves tremblingly were | F |
| All bent towards that part where earliest | G |
| The sacred hill obscures the morning air | D |
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| Yet were they not so shaken from the rest | H |
| But that the birds perched on the utmost spray | I |
| Incessantly renewing their blithe quest | H |
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| With perfect joy received the early day | I |
| Singing within the glancing leaves whose sound | A |
| Kept a low burden to their roundelay | J |
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| Such as from bough to bough gathers around | A |
| The pine forest on bleak Chiassi s shore | K |
| When Aeolus Sirocco has unbound | A |
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| My slow steps had already borne me o er | F |
| Such space within the antique wood that I | L |
| Perceived not where I entered any more | K |
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| When lo a stream whose little waves went by | L |
| Bending towards the left through grass that grew | M |
| Upon its bank impeded suddenly | J |
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| My going on Water of purest hue | M |
| On earth would appear turbid and impure | N |
| Compared with this whose unconcealing dew | M |
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| Dark dark yet clear moved under the obscure | N |
| Eternal shades whose interwoven looms | O |
| The rays of moon or sunlight ne er endure | N |
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| I moved not with my feet but mid the glooms | O |
| Pierced with my charmed eye contemplating | P |
| The mighty multitude of fresh May blooms | O |
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| Which starred that night when even as a thing | P |
| That suddenly for blank astonishment | Q |
| Charms every sense and makes all thought take wing | P |
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| A solitary woman and she went | R |
| Singing and gathering flower after flower | F |
| With which her way was painted and besprent | R |
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| Bright lady who if looks had ever power | F |
| To bear true witness of the heart within | S |
| Dost bask under the beams of love come lower | F |
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| Towards this bank I prithee let me win | S |
| This much of thee to come that I may hear | T |
| Thy song like Proserpine in Enna s glen | U |
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| Thou seemest to my fancy singing here | T |
| And gathering flowers as that fair maiden when | U |
| She lost the Spring and Ceres her more dear | V |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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