Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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The Woodman And The Nightingale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AA BCB CDE FGF GHG HGH GIG JKJ KLK MNM NON OPO QRP STS GUG UGU GVG WGV GGG GGG GXG XYX YZYA2 B2C2B2

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A woodman whose rough heart was out of tuneB
I think such hearts yet never came to goodC
Hated to hear under the stars or moonB
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One nightingale in an interfluous woodC
Satiate the hungry dark with melodyD
And as a vale is watered by a floodE
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Or as the moonlight fills the open skyF
Struggling with darkness as a tuberoseG
Peoples some Indian dell with scents which lieF
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Like clouds above the flower from which they roseG
The singing of that happy nightingaleH
In this sweet forest from the golden closeG
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Of evening till the star of dawn may failH
Was interfused upon the silentnessG
The folded roses and the violets paleH
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Heard her within their slumbers the abyssG
Of heaven with all its planets the dull earI
Of the night cradled earth the lonelinessG
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Of the circumfluous waters every sphereJ
And every flower and beam and cloud and waveK
And every wind of the mute atmosphereJ
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And every beast stretched in its rugged caveK
And every bird lulled on its mossy boughL
And every silver moth fresh from the graveK
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Which is its cradle ever from belowM
Aspiring like one who loves too fair too farN
To be consumed within the purest glowM
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Of one serene and unapproached starN
As if it were a lamp of earthly lightO
Unconscious as some human lovers areN
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Itself how low how high beyond all heightO
The heaven where it would perish and every formP
That worshipped in the temple of the nightO
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Was awed into delight and by the charmQ
Girt as with an interminable zoneR
Whilst that sweet bird whose music was a stormP
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Of sound shook forth the dull oblivionS
Out of their dreams harmony became loveT
In every soul but oneS
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And so this man returned with axe and sawG
At evening close from killing the tall treenU
The soul of whom by Nature s gentle lawG
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Was each a wood nymph and kept ever greenU
The pavement and the roof of the wild copseG
Chequering the sunlight of the blue sereneU
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With jagged leaves and from the forest topsG
Singing the winds to sleep or weeping oftV
Fast showers of aereal water dropsG
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Into their mother s bosom sweet and softW
Nature s pure tears which have no bitternessG
Around the cradles of the birds aloftV
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They spread themselves into the lovelinessG
Of fan like leaves and over pallid flowersG
Hang like moist clouds or where high branches kissG
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Make a green space among the silent bowersG
Like a vast fane in a metropolisG
Surrounded by the columns and the towersG
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All overwrought with branch like traceriesG
In which there is religion and the muteX
Persuasion of unkindled melodiesG
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Odours and gleams and murmurs which the luteX
Of the blind pilot spirit of the blastY
Stirs as it sails now grave and now acuteX
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Wakening the leaves and waves ere it has passedY
To such brief unison as on the brainZ
One tone which never can recur has castY
One accent never to return againA2
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The world is full of Woodmen who expelB2
Love s gentle Dryads from the haunts of lifeC2
And vex the nightingales in every dellB2

Percy Bysshe Shelley



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