Composed At Clevedon, Somersetshire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJHKLMNOPQRS GTUVWXCYCHHZCA2HNHB2 ZC2GD2HHHHHE2WF2G2H2 H2HCI2H J2My 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 flowered jasmine and the broad leaved myrtle | D |
Meet emblems they of innocence and love | E |
And watch the clouds that late were rich with light | F |
Slow sad'ning round and mark the star of eve | G |
Serenely brilliant such should wisdom be | H |
Shine opposite How exquisite the scents | I |
Snatched from yon bean field And the world so hushed | J |
The stilly murmur of the distant sea | H |
Tells us of silence And that simplest lute | K |
Placed lengthways in the clasping casement hark | L |
How by desultory breeze caressed | M |
Like some coy maid half yielding to her lover | N |
It pours such sweet upbraidings as must needs | O |
Tempt to repeat the wrong And now its strings | P |
Boldlier swept the long sequacious notes | Q |
Over delicious surges sink and rise | R |
Such a soft floating witchery of sound | S |
As twilight elfins make when they at eve | G |
Voyage on gentle gales from fairyland | T |
Where melodies round honey dropping flowers | U |
Footless and wild like birds of paradise | V |
Nor pause nor perch hov'ring on untamed wing | W |
And thus my love as on the midway slope | X |
Of yonder hill I stretch my limbs at noon | C |
Whilst through my half closed eyelids I behold | Y |
The sunbeams dance like diamonds on the main | C |
And tranquil muse upon tranquility | H |
Full many a thought uncalled and undetained | H |
And many idle flitting fantasies | Z |
Traverse my indolent and passive brain | C |
As wild and various as the random gales | A2 |
That swell and flutter on this subject lute | H |
And what if all of animated nature | N |
Be but organic harps diversely framed | H |
That tremble into thought as o'er them sweeps | B2 |
Plastic and vast one intellectual breeze | Z |
At once the soul of each and God of all | C2 |
But thy more serious eye a mild reproof | G |
Darts oh beloved woman nor such thoughts | D2 |
Dim and unhallowed 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 dispraised | H |
These shapings of the unregenerate mind | H |
Bubbles that glitter as they rise and break | E2 |
On vain philosophy's aye babbling spring | W |
For never guiltless may I speak of Him | F2 |
Th'Incomprehensible save when with awe | G2 |
I praise him and with faith that inly feels | H2 |
I praise him and with faith that inly feels | H2 |
Who with his saving mercies healed me | H |
A sinful and most miserable man | C |
Wildered and dark and gave me to possess | I2 |
Peace and this cot and the heart honoured maid | H |
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Aug th | J2 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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