Elinor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIHJKLMNOMPKQR SQS SHDTUVSSWXSSYZA2SB2S SC2SSD2LSSS E2F2G2TH2SI2J2K2L2M2 T N2O2P2SQ2R2SS2T2SE2I 2U2V2SBW2SSX2Y2SZ2SS SA3Z B3C3| Time Morning Scene the Shore | A |
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| Once more to daily toil once more to wear | B |
| The weeds of infamy from every joy | C |
| The heart can feel excluded I arise | D |
| Worn out and faint with unremitting woe | E |
| And once again with wearied steps I trace | F |
| The hollow sounding shore The swelling waves | G |
| Gleam to the morning sun and dazzle o'er | H |
| With many a splendid hue the breezy strand | I |
| Oh there was once a time when ELINOR | H |
| Gazed on thy opening beam with joyous eye | J |
| Undimm'd by guilt and grief when her full soul | K |
| Felt thy mild radiance and the rising day | L |
| Waked but to pleasure on thy sea girt verge | M |
| Oft England have my evening steps stole on | N |
| Oft have mine eyes surveyed the blue expanse | O |
| And mark'd the wild wind swell the ruffled surge | M |
| And seen the upheaved billows bosomed rage | P |
| Rush on the rock and then my timid soul | K |
| Shrunk at the perils of the boundless deep | Q |
| And heaved a sigh for suffering mariners | R |
| Ah little deeming I myself was doom'd | S |
| To tempt the perils of the boundless deep | Q |
| An Outcast unbeloved and unbewail'd | S |
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| Why stern Remembrance must thine iron hand | S |
| Harrow my soul why calls thy cruel power | H |
| The fields of England to my exil'd eyes | D |
| The joys which once were mine even now I see | T |
| The lowly lovely dwelling even now | U |
| Behold the woodbine clasping its white walls | V |
| And hear the fearless red breasts chirp around | S |
| To ask their morning meal for I was wont | S |
| With friendly band to give their morning meal | W |
| Was wont to love their song when lingering morn | X |
| Streak'd o'er the chilly landskip the dim light | S |
| And thro' the open'd lattice hung my head | S |
| To view the snow drop's bud and thence at eve | Y |
| When mildly fading sunk the summer sun | Z |
| Oft have I loved to mark the rook's slow course | A2 |
| And hear his hollow croak what time he sought | S |
| The church yard elm whose wide embowering boughs | B2 |
| Full foliaged half conceal'd the house of God | S |
| There my dead father often have I heard | S |
| Thy hallowed voice explain the wonderous works | C2 |
| Of Heaven to sinful man Ah little deem'd | S |
| Thy virtuous bosom that thy shameless child | S |
| So soon should spurn the lesson sink the slave | D2 |
| Of Vice and Infamy the hireling prey | L |
| Of brutal appetite at length worn out | S |
| With famine and the avenging scourge of guilt | S |
| Should dare dishonesty yet dread to die | S |
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| Welcome ye savage lands ye barbarous climes | E2 |
| Where angry England sends her outcast sons | F2 |
| I hail your joyless shores my weary bark | G2 |
| Long tempest tost on Life's inclement sea | T |
| Here hails her haven welcomes the drear scene | H2 |
| The marshy plain the briar entangled wood | S |
| And all the perils of a world unknown | I2 |
| For Elinor has nothing new to fear | J2 |
| From fickle Fortune all her rankling shafts | K2 |
| Barb'd with disgrace and venom'd with disease | L2 |
| Have pierced my bosom and the dart of death | M2 |
| Has lost its terrors to a wretch like me | T |
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| Welcome ye marshy heaths ye pathless woods | N2 |
| Where the rude native rests his wearied frame | O2 |
| Beneath the sheltering shade where when the storm | P2 |
| As rough and bleak it rolls along the sky | S |
| Benumbs his naked limbs he flies to seek | Q2 |
| The dripping shelter Welcome ye wild plains | R2 |
| Unbroken by the plough undelv'd by hand | S |
| Of patient rustic where for lowing herds | S2 |
| And for the music of the bleating flocks | T2 |
| Alone is heard the kangaroo's sad note | S |
| Deepening in distance Welcome ye rude climes | E2 |
| The realm of Nature for as yet unknown | I2 |
| The crimes and comforts of luxurious life | U2 |
| Nature benignly gives to all enough | V2 |
| Denies to all a superfluity | S |
| What tho' the garb of infamy I wear | B |
| Tho' day by day along the echoing beach | W2 |
| I cull the wave worn shells yet day by day | S |
| I earn in honesty my frugal food | S |
| And lay me down at night to calm repose | X2 |
| No more condemn'd the mercenary tool | Y2 |
| Of brutal lust while heaves the indignant heart | S |
| With Virtue's stiffled sigh to fold my arms | Z2 |
| Round the rank felon and for daily bread | S |
| To hug contagion to my poison'd breast | S |
| On these wild shores Repentance' saviour hand | S |
| Shall probe my secret soul shall cleanse its wounds | A3 |
| And fit the faithful penitent for Heaven | Z |
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| Footnote The female convicts are frequently employed in collecting | B3 |
| shells for the purpose of making lime | C3 |
Robert Southey
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