To Jane: The Recollection Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEDEC AFGHGIJIJKLKM ANOPOQRSRITIT UVWXWYZA2ZB2OB2OWUWU UVUC2 UACAD2E2JE2JZVZVF2NF 2G2UH2UH2SD2QD2I2HHH AHAHHH2HH2| I | 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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