To Jane: The Recollection Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEDEC AFGHGIJIJKLKM ANOPOQRSRITIT UVWXWYZA2ZB2OB2OWUWU UVUC2 UACAD2E2JE2JZVZVF2NF 2G2UH2UH2SD2QD2I2HHH AHAHHH2HH2I | A |
Now the last day of many days | B |
All beautiful and bright as thou | C |
The loveliest and the last is dead | D |
Rise Memory and write its praise | B |
Up to thy wonted work come trace | E |
The epitaph of glory fled | D |
For now the Earth has changed its face | E |
A frown is on the Heaven s brow | C |
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II | A |
We wandered to the Pine Forest | F |
That skirts the Ocean s foam | G |
The lightest wind was in its nest | H |
The tempest in its home | G |
The whispering waves were half asleep | I |
The clouds were gone to play | J |
And on the bosom of the deep | I |
The smile of Heaven lay | J |
It seemed as if the hour were one | K |
Sent from beyond the skies | L |
Which scattered from above the sun | K |
A light of Paradise | M |
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III | A |
We paused amid the pines that stood | N |
The giants of the waste | O |
Tortured by storms to shapes as rude | P |
As serpents interlaced | O |
And soothed by every azure breath | Q |
That under Heaven is blown | R |
To harmonies and hues beneath | S |
As tender as its own | R |
Now all the tree tops lay asleep | I |
Like green waves on the sea | T |
As still as in the silent deep | I |
The ocean woods may be | T |
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IV | U |
How calm it was the silence there | V |
By such a chain was bound | W |
That even the busy woodpecker | X |
Made stiller by her sound | W |
The inviolable quietness | Y |
The breath of peace we drew | Z |
With its soft motion made not less | A2 |
The calm that round us grew | Z |
There seemed from the remotest seat | B2 |
Of the white mountain waste | O |
To the soft flower beneath our feet | B2 |
A magic circle traced | O |
A spirit interfused around | W |
A thrilling silent life | U |
To momentary peace it bound | W |
Our mortal nature s strife | U |
And still I felt the centre of | U |
The magic circle there | V |
Was one fair form that filled with love | U |
The lifeless atmosphere | C2 |
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V | U |
We paused beside the pools that lie | A |
Under the forest bough | C |
Each seemed as twere a little sky | A |
Gulfed in a world below | D2 |
A firmament of purple light | E2 |
Which in the dark earth lay | J |
More boundless than the depth of night | E2 |
And purer than the day | J |
In which the lovely forests grew | Z |
As in the upper air | V |
More perfect both in shape and hue | Z |
Than any spreading there | V |
There lay the glade and neighbouring lawn | F2 |
And through the dark green wood | N |
The white sun twinkling like the dawn | F2 |
Out of a speckled cloud | G2 |
Sweet views which in our world above | U |
Can never well be seen | H2 |
Were imaged by the water s love | U |
Of that fair forest green | H2 |
And all was interfused beneath | S |
With an Elysian glow | D2 |
An atmosphere without a breath | Q |
A softer day below | D2 |
Like one beloved the scene had lent | I2 |
To the dark water s breast | H |
Its every leaf and lineament | H |
With more than truth expressed | H |
Until an envious wind crept by | A |
Like an unwelcome thought | H |
Which from the mind s too faithful eye | A |
Blots one dear image out | H |
Though thou art ever fair and kind | H |
The forests ever green | H2 |
Less oft is peace in Shelley s mind | H |
Than calm in waters seen | H2 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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