The Cataract Of Lodore Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCDEAAEAAAADADAFF GHG IIJJKLMMLGGNNOOAAAAG GGPQRQR GGGGGGGGGGGGGGSSGPGS GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGG GGGGGG GGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGAA'How does the water | A |
Come down at Lodore ' | B |
My little boy asked me | C |
Thus once on a time | D |
And moreover he tasked me | C |
To tell him in rhyme | D |
Anon at the word | E |
There first came one daughter | A |
And then came another | A |
To second and third | E |
The request of their brother | A |
And to hear how the water | A |
Comes down at Lodore | A |
With its rush and its roar | A |
As many a time | D |
They had seen it before | A |
So I told them in rhyme | D |
For of rhymes I had store | A |
And 'twas in my vocation | F |
For their recreation | F |
That so I should sing | G |
Because I was Laureate | H |
To them and the King | G |
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From its sources which well | I |
In the tarn on the fell | I |
From its fountains | J |
In the mountains | J |
Its rills and its gills | K |
Through moss and through brake | L |
It runs and it creeps | M |
For a while till it sleeps | M |
In its own little lake | L |
And thence at departing | G |
Awakening and starting | G |
It runs through the reeds | N |
And away it proceeds | N |
Through meadow and glade | O |
In sun and in shade | O |
And through the wood shelter | A |
Among crags in its flurry | A |
Helter skelter | A |
Hurry skurry | A |
He re it comes sparkling | G |
And there it lies darkling | G |
Now smoking and frothing | G |
Its tumult and wrath in | P |
Till in this rapid race | Q |
On which it is bent | R |
It reaches the place | Q |
Of its steep descent | R |
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The cataract strong | G |
Then plunges along | G |
Striking and raging | G |
As if a war waging | G |
Its caverns and rocks among | G |
Rising and leaping | G |
Sinking and creeping | G |
Swelling and sweeping | G |
Showering and springing | G |
Flying and flinging | G |
Writhing and ringing | G |
Eddying and whisking | G |
Spouting and frisking | G |
Turning and twisting | G |
Around and around | S |
With endless rebound | S |
Smiting and fighting | G |
A sight to delight in | P |
Confounding astounding | G |
Dizzying and deafening the ear with its sound | S |
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Collecting projecting | G |
Receding and speeding | G |
And shocking and rocking | G |
And darting and parting | G |
And threading and spreading | G |
And whizzing and hissing | G |
And dripping and skipping | G |
And hitting and splitting | G |
And shining and twining | G |
And rattling and battling | G |
And shaking and quaking | G |
And pouring and roaring | G |
And waving and raving | G |
And tossing and crossing | G |
And flowing and going | G |
And running and stunning | G |
And foaming and roaming | G |
And dinning and spinning | G |
And dropping and hopping | G |
And working and jerking | G |
And guggling and struggling | G |
And heaving and cleaving | G |
And moaning and groaning | G |
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And glittering and frittering | G |
And gathering and feathering | G |
And whitening and brightening | G |
And quivering and shivering | G |
And hurrying and skurrying | G |
And thundering and floundering | G |
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Dividing and gliding and sliding | G |
And falling and brawling and sprawling | G |
And driving and riving and striving | G |
And sprinkling and twinkling and wrinkling | G |
And sounding and bounding and rounding | G |
And bubbling and troubling and doubling | G |
And grumbling and rumbling and tumbling | G |
And clattering and battering and shattering | G |
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Retreating and beating and meeting and sheeting | G |
Delaying and straying and playing and spraying | G |
Advancing and prancing and glancing and dancing | G |
Recoiling turmoiling and toiling and boiling | G |
And gleaming and streaming and steaming and beaming | G |
And rushing and flushing and brushing and gushing | G |
And flapping and rapping and clapping and slapping | G |
And curling and whirling and purling and twirling | G |
And thumping and plumping and bumping and jumping | G |
And dashing and flashing and splashing and clashing | G |
And so never ending but always descending | G |
Sounds and motions for ever and ever are blending | G |
All at once and all o'er with a mighty uproar | A |
And this way the water comes down at Lodore | A |
Robert Southey
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