The Wanderer: A Vision: Canto I Poem Rhyme Scheme

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The Wanderer: A Vision: Canto I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Fain would my verse Tyrconnel boast thy name	A
Brownlow at once my subject and my fame	A
Oh could that spirit which thy bosom warms	B
Whose strength surprises and whose goodness charms	C
That various worth could that inspire my lays	D
Envy should smile and censure learn to praise	D
Yet tho' unequal to a soul like thine	E
A generous soul approaching to divine	E
When bless'd beneath such patronage I write	F
Great my attempt tho' hazardous my flight	F
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O'er ample Nature I extend my views	G
Nature to rural scenes invites the muse	G
She flies all public care all venal strife	H
To try the still compar'd with active life	H
To prove by these the sons of men may owe	I
The fruits of bliss to bursting clouds of woe	I
That e'en calamity by thought refin'd	J
Inspirits and adorns the thinking mind	J
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Come Contemplation whose unbounded gaze	D
Swift in a glance the course of things surveys	D
Who in thyself the various view canst find	J
Of sea land air and heav'n and human kind	J
What tides of passion in the bosom roll	K
What thoughts debase and what exalt the soul	K
Whose pencil paints obsequious to thy will	L
All thou survey'st with a creative skill	L
Oh leave awhile thy lov'd sequester'd shade	M
Awhile in wint'ry wilds vouchsafe thy aid	M
Then waft me to some olive bow'ry green	N
Where cloath'd in white thou shew'st a mind serene	N
Where kind content from noise and courts retires	O
And smiling sits while muses tune their lyres	O
Where zephyrs gently breathe while sleep profound	P
To their soft fanning nods with poppies crown'd	P
Sleep on a treasure of bright dreams reclines	O
By thee bestow'd whence Fancy colour'd shines	O
And flutters round his brow a hov'ring flight	F
Varying her plumes in visionary light	F
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The solar fires now faint and wat'ry burn	Q
Just where with ice Aquarius frets his urn	Q
If thaw'd forth issue from its mouth severe	R
Raw clouds that sadden all th' inverted year	R
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When frost and fire with martial pow'rs engag'd	S
Frost northward fled the war unequal wag'd	S
Beneath the Pole his legions urg'd their flight	F
And gain'd a cave profound and wide as night	F
O'er cheerless scenes by Desolation own'd	T
High on an Alp of ice he sits enthron'd	T
One clay cold hand his crystal beard sustains	O
And scepter'd one o'er wind and tempest reigns	O
O'er stony magazines of hail that storm	U
The blossom'd fruit and flow'ry Spring deform	U
His languid eyes like frozen lakes appear	R
Dim gleaming all the light that wanders here	V
His robe snow wrought and hoar'd with age his breath	W
A nitrous damp that strikes petrific death	W
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Far hence lies ever freez'd the northern main	X
That checks and renders navigation vain	X
That shut against the sun's dissolving ray	Y
Scatters the trembling tides of vanquish'd day	Y
And stretching eastward half the world secures	O
Defies discov'ry and like time endures	O
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Now frost sent boreal blasts to scourge the air	Z
To bind the streams and leave the landscape bear	Z
Yet when far west his violence declines	O
Tho' here the brook or lake his pow'r confines	O
To rocky pools to cat'racts are unknown	A2
His chains to rivers rapid like the Rhone	A2
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The falling moon cast cold a quiv'ring light	T
Just silver'd o'er the snow and sunk pale night	T
Retir'd The dawn in light grey mists arose	O
Shrill chants the cock the hungry heifer lows	O
Slow blush yon breaking clouds the sun's uproll'd	T
Th' expansive grey turns azure chas'd with gold	T
White glitt'ring ice chang'd like the topaz gleams	O
Reflecting saffron lustre from his beams	O
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O Contemplation teach me to explore	B2
From Britain far remote some distant shore	B2
From Sleep a dream distinct and lively claim	A
Clear let the vision strike the moral's aim	A
It comes I feel it o'er my soul serene	N
Still morn begins and frost retains the scene	N
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Hark the loud horn's enlivening note's begun	C2
From rock to vale sweet wand'ring echoes run	C2
Still floats the sound shrill winding from afar	D2
Wild beasts astonish'd dread the sylvan war	B2
Spears to the sun in files embattled play	Y
March on charge briskly and enjoy the fray	Y
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Swans ducks and geese and the wing'd winter brood	T
Chatter discordant on yon echoing flood	T
At Babel thus when heav'n the tongue confounds	O
Sudden a thousand different jargon sounds	O
Like jangling bells harsh mingling grate the ear	V
All stare all talk all mean but none cohere	R
Mark wiley fowlers meditate their doom	E2
And smoaky Fate speeds thund'ring thro' the gloom	E2
Stop'd short they cease in airy rings to fly	F2
Whirl o'er and o'er and flutt'ring fall and die	F2
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Still Fancy wafts me on deceiv'd I stand	T
Estrang'd advent'rous on a foreign land	T
Wide and more wide extends the scene unknown	A2
Where shall I turn a Wand'rer and alone	A2
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From hilly winds and depths where snows remain	X
My winding steps up a steep mountain strain	X
Emers'd a top I mark the hills subside	T
And tow'rs aspire but with inferior pride	T
On this bleak height tall firs with ice work crown'd	T
Bend while their flaky winter shades the ground	T
Hoarse and direct a blust'ring north wind blows	O
On boughs thick rustling crack the crispid snows	O
Tangles of frost half fright the wilder'd eye	F2
By heat oft blacken'd like a low'ring sky	F2
Hence down the side two turbid riv'lets pour	B2
And devious two in one huge cat'ract roar	B2
While pleas'd the wat'ry progress I pursue	O
Yon rocks in rough assemblage rush in view	O
In form an amphitheatre they rise	O
And a dark gulf in their broad centre lies	O
There the dim'd sight with dizzy weakness fails	O
And horror o'er the firmest brain prevails	O
Thither these mountain streams their passage take	G2
Headlong foam down and form a dreadful lake	G2
The lake high swelling so redundant grows	O
From the heap'd store deriv'd a river flows	O
Which deep'ning travels through a distant wood	T
And thence emerging meets a sister flood	T
Mingled they flash on a wide op'ning plain	X
And pass yon city to the far seen main	X
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So blend two souls by heav'n for union made	T
And strength'ning forward lend a mutual aid	T
And prove in ev'ry transient turn their aim	A
Thro' finite life to infinite the same	A
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Nor ends the landscape Ocean to my sight	T
Points a blue arm where sailing ships delight	T
In prospect lessen'd Now new rocks rear'd high	F2
Stretch a cross ridge and bar the curious eye	F2
There lies obscur'd the ripening diamond's ray	Y
And thence red branching coral's rent away	Y
In conic form there gelid crystal grows	O
Thro' such the palace lamp gay lustre throws	O
Lustre which thro' dim night as various plays	O
As play from yonder snows the changeful rays	O
For nobler use the crystal's worth may rise	O
If tubes perspective hem the spotless prize	O
Thro' these the beams of the far lengthen'd eye	F2
Measure known stars and new remoter spy	F2
Hence Commerce many a shorten'd voyage steers	O
Shorten'd to months the hazard once of years	O
Hence Halley's soul etherial flight essays	O
Instructive there from orb to orb she strays	O
Sees round new countless suns new systems roll	K
Sees God in all and magnifies the whole	K
Yon rocky side enrich'd the summer scene	N
And peasant's search for herbs of healthful green	N
Now naked pale and comfortless it lies	O
Like youth extended cold in death's disguise	O
There while without the sounding tempest swells	O
Incav'd secure th' exulting eagle dwells	O
And there when Nature owns prolific spring	H2
Spreads o'er her young a fondling mother's wing	H2
Swains on the coast the far fam'd fish descry	Y
That gives the fleecy robe the Tyrian dye	F2
While shells a scatter'd ornament bestow	T
The tinctur'd rivals of the show'ry bow	I2
Yon limeless sands loose driving with the wind	T
In future cauldrons useful textures find	T
Till on the furnace thrown the glowing mass	O
Brightens and bright'ning hardens into glass	O
When winter halcyons flick'ring on the wave	J2
Tune their complaints yon sea forgets to rave	J2
Tho' lash'd by storms with naval pride o'erturn	N
The foaming deep in sparkles seems to burn	N
Loud winds turn zephyrs to enlarge their notes	O
And each safe nest on a calm surface floats	O