Aeolian Harp, The Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJHK LMNOPQRSTGUVWXYZFA2D B2A2C2 D2CE2CHHWCWHOHWWF2GW HHHHHG2XH2I2WHCWHMy pensive SARA thy soft cheek reclined | A |
Thus on mine arm most soothing sweet it is | B |
To sit beside our Cot our Cot o'ergrown | C |
With white flower'd Jasmin and the broad leav'd Myrtle | D |
Meet emblems they of Innocence and Love | E |
And watch the clouds that late were rich with light | F |
Slow saddenning round and mark the star of eve | G |
Serenely brilliant such should Wisdom be | H |
Shine opposite How exquisite the scents | I |
Snatch'd from yon bean field and the world so hush'd | J |
The stilly murmur of the distant Sea | H |
Tells us of silence | K |
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Image Image And that simplest Lute | L |
Plac'd length ways in the clasping casement hark | M |
How by the desultory breeze caress'd | N |
Like some coy maid half yielding to her lover | O |
It pours such sweet upbraiding as must needs | P |
Tempt to repeat the wrong And now its strings | Q |
Boldlier swept the long sequacious notes | R |
Over delicious surges sink and rise | S |
Such a soft floating witchery of sound | T |
As twilight Elfins make when they at eve | G |
Voyage on gentle gales from Faery Land | U |
Where Melodies round honey dropping flowers | V |
Footless and wild like birds of Paradise | W |
Nor pause nor perch hovering on untam'd wing | X |
O the one Life within us and abroad | Y |
Which meets all motion and becomes its soul | Z |
A light in sound a sound like power in light | F |
Rhythm in all thought and joyance every where | A2 |
Methinks it should have been impossible | D |
Not to love all things in a world so fill'd | B2 |
Where the breeze warbles and the mute still air | A2 |
Is Music slumbering on her instrument | C2 |
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And thus my Love as on the midway slope | D2 |
Of yonder hill I stretch my limbs at noon | C |
Whilst thro' my half clos'd eye lids I behold | E2 |
The sunbeams dance like diamonds on the main | C |
And tranquil muse upon tranquility | H |
Full many a thought uncall'd and undetain'd | H |
And many idle flitting phantasies | W |
Traverse my indolent and passive brain | C |
As wild and various as the random gales | W |
That swell and flutter on this subject Lute | H |
And what if all of animated nature | O |
Be but organic Harps diversly fram'd | H |
That tremble into thought as o'er them sweeps | W |
Plastic and vast one intellectual breeze | W |
At once the Soul of each and God of all | F2 |
But thy more serious eye a mild reproof | G |
Darts O belov d Woman nor such thoughts | W |
Dim and unhallow'd dost thou not reject | H |
And biddest me walk humbly with my God | H |
Meek Daughter in the Family of Christ | H |
Well hast thou said and holily disprais'd | H |
These shapings of the unregenerate mind | H |
Bubbles that glitter as they rise and break | G2 |
On vain Philosophy's aye babbling spring | X |
For never guiltless may I speak of him | H2 |
The Incomprehensible save when with awe | I2 |
I praise him and with Faith that inly feels | W |
Who with his saving mercies heal d me | H |
A sinful and most miserable man | C |
Wilder'd and dark and gave me to possess | W |
Peace and this Cot and thee heart honour'd Maid | H |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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