Fears In Solitude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFCGHCIJKLCM CNOPQRCSTUCVC WXYZA2WCB2C2D2E2AF2L PACZFCG2CH2I2J2TCCK2 LCL2M2N2CO2P2RMQ2R2M S2T2CU2V2W2X2LZY2CZ2 A3CAB3 CCC3D3E3F3CCCG3CC3CH 3G2CAI3CC3D3YCJ3TC3C C3CS2K3C3RS2CC3H3CF2 CL3YCC E2E2C3CC3E3CC3CM3L3C N3WCC3CG2ACC3O3P3X2C C3C3CC3Q3KR3R3C3TS3C 3S3S2T3CCCE2E3CCC C3E2CC3P3E3CE2CCCN2C TCYR3U3V3U3S2CC CCCC3C3C C3CW3X3GC3W3C3CCR3R3 Y3CS2CC3C3C3CC3T3Z3C 3C3GCC3A4C3Written in April during the alarm of an invasion | A |
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A green and silent spot amid the hills | B |
A small and silent dell O'er stiller place | C |
No singing skylark ever poised himself | D |
The hills are heathy save that swelling slope | E |
Which hath a gay and gorgeous covering on | F |
All golden with the never bloomless furze | C |
Which now blooms most profusely but the dell | G |
Bathed by the mist is fresh and delicate | H |
As vernal cornfield or the unripe flax | C |
When through its half transparent stalks at eve | I |
The level sunshine glimmers with green light | J |
Oh 'tis a quiet spirit healing nook | K |
Which all methinks would love but chiefly he | L |
The humble man who in his youthful years | C |
Knew just so much of folly as had made | M |
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His early manhood more securely wise | C |
Here he might lie on fern or withered heath | N |
While from the singing lark that sings unseen | O |
The minstrelsy that solitude loves best | P |
And from the sun and from the breezy air | Q |
Sweet influences trembled o'er his frame | R |
And he with many feelings many thoughts | C |
Made up a meditative joy and found | S |
Religious meanings in the forms of Nature | T |
And so his senses gradually wrapped | U |
In a half sleep he dreams of better worlds | C |
And dreaming hears thee still O singing lark | V |
That singest like an angel in the clouds | C |
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My God it is a melancholy thing | W |
For such a man who would full fain preserve | X |
His soul in calmness yet perforce must feel | Y |
For all his human brethren O my God | Z |
It weighs upon the heart that he must think | A2 |
What uproar and what strife may now be stirring | W |
This way or that way o'er these silent hills | C |
Invasion and the thunder and the shout | B2 |
And all the crash of onset fear and rage | C2 |
And undetermined conflict even now | D2 |
Even now perchance and in his native isle | E2 |
Carnage and groans beneath this blessed sun | A |
We have offended Oh my countrymen | F2 |
We have offended very grievously | L |
And been most tyrannous From east to west | P |
A groan of accusation pierces Heaven | A |
The wretched plead against us multitudes | C |
Countless and vehement the sons of God | Z |
Our brethren Like a cloud that travels on | F |
Steamed up from Cairo's swamps of pestilence | C |
Even so my countrymen have we gone forth | G2 |
And borne to distant tribes slavery and pangs | C |
And deadlier far our vices whose deep taint | H2 |
With slow perdition murders the whole man | I2 |
His body and his soul Meanwhile at home | J2 |
All individual dignity and power | T |
Engulfed in Courts Committees Institutions | C |
Associations and Societies | C |
A vain speech mouthing speech reporting Guild | K2 |
One Benefit Club for mutual flattery | L |
We have drunk up demure as at a grace | C |
Pollutions from the brimming cup of wealth | L2 |
Contemptuous of all honourable rule | M2 |
Yet bartering freedom and the poor man's life | N2 |
For gold as at a market The sweet words | C |
Of Christian promise words that even yet | O2 |
Might stem destruction were they wisely preached | P2 |
Are muttered o'er by men whose tones proclaim | R |
How flat and wearisome they feel their trade | M |
Rank scoffers some but most too indolent | Q2 |
To deem them falsehoods or to know their truth | R2 |
Oh blasphemous the Book of Life is made | M |
A superstitious instrument on which | S2 |
We gabble o'er the oaths we mean to break | T2 |
For all must swear all and in every place | C |
College and wharf council and justice court | U2 |
All all must swear the briber and the bribed | V2 |
Merchant and lawyer senator and priest | W2 |
The rich the poor the old man and the young | X2 |
All all make up one scheme of perjury | L |
That faith doth reel the very name of God | Z |
Sounds like a juggler's charm and bold with joy | Y2 |
Forth from his dark and lonely hiding place | C |
Portentous sight the owlet Atheism | Z2 |
Sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon | A3 |
Drops his blue fringed lids and holds them close | C |
And hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven | A |
Cries out Where is it | B3 |
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Thankless too for peace | C |
Peace long preserved by fleets and perilous seas | C |
Secure from actual warfare we have loved | C3 |
To swell the war whoop passionate for war | D3 |
Alas for ages ignorant of all | E3 |
Its ghastlier workings famine or blue plague | F3 |
Battle or siege or flight through wintry snows | C |
We this whole people have been clamorous | C |
For war and bloodshed animating sports | C |
The which we pay for as a thing to talk of | G3 |
Spectators and not combatants No guess | C |
Anticipative of a wrong unfelt | C3 |
No speculation on contingency | C |
However dim and vague too vague and dim | H3 |
To yield a justifying cause and forth | G2 |
Stuffed out with big preamble holy names | C |
And adjurations of the God in Heaven | A |
We send our mandates for the certain death | I3 |
Of thousands and ten thousands Boys and girls | C |
And women that would groan to see a child | C3 |
Pull off an insect's leg all read of war | D3 |
The best amusement for our morning meal | Y |
The poor wretch who has learnt his only prayers | C |
From curses who knows scarcely words enough | J3 |
To ask a blessing from his Heavenly Father | T |
Becomes a fluent phraseman absolute | C3 |
And technical in victories and defeats | C |
And all our dainty terms for fratricide | C3 |
Terms which we trundle smoothly o'er our tongues | C |
Like mere abstractions empty sounds to which | S2 |
We join no feeling and attach no form | K3 |
As if the soldier died without a wound | C3 |
As if the fibres of this godlike frame | R |
Were gored without a pang as if the wretch | S2 |
Who fell in battle doing bloody deeds | C |
Passed off to Heaven translated and not killed | C3 |
As though he had no wife to pine for him | H3 |
No God to judge him Therefore evil days | C |
Are coming on us O my countrymen | F2 |
And what if all avenging Providence | C |
Strong and retributive should make us know | L3 |
The meaning of our words force us to feel | Y |
The desolation and the agony | C |
Of our fierce doings | C |
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Spare us yet awhile | E2 |
Father and God O spare us yet awhile | E2 |
Oh let not English women drag their flight | C3 |
Fainting beneath the burthen of their babes | C |
Of the sweet infants that but yesterday | C3 |
Laughed at the breast Sons brothers husbands all | E3 |
Who ever gazed with fondness on the forms | C |
Which grew up with you round the same fireside | C3 |
And all who ever heard the Sabbath bells | C |
Without the Infidel's scorn make yourselves pure | M3 |
Stand forth be men repel an impious foe | L3 |
Impious and false a light yet cruel race | C |
Who laugh away all virtue mingling mirth | N3 |
With deeds of murder and still promising | W |
Freedom themselves too sensual to be free | C |
Poison life's amities and cheat the heart | C3 |
Of faith and quiet hope and all that soothes | C |
And all that lifts the spirit Stand we forth | G2 |
Render them back upon the insulted ocean | A |
And let them toss as idly on its waves | C |
As the vile seaweed which some mountain blast | C3 |
Swept from our shores And oh may we return | O3 |
Not with a drunken triumph but with fear | P3 |
Repenting of the wrongs with which we stung | X2 |
So fierce a foe to frenzy | C |
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I have told | C3 |
O Britons O my brethren I have told | C3 |
Most bitter truth but without bitterness | C |
Nor deem my zeal or fractious or mistimed | C3 |
For never can true courage dwell with them | Q3 |
Who playing tricks with conscience dare not look | K |
At their own vices We have been too long | R3 |
Dupes of a deep delusion Some belike | R3 |
Groaning with restless enmity expect | C3 |
All change from change of constituted power | T |
As if a Government had been a robe | S3 |
On which our vice and wretchedness were tagged | C3 |
Like fancy points and fringes with the robe | S3 |
Pulled off at pleasure Fondly these attach | S2 |
A radical causation to a few | T3 |
Poor drudges of chastising Providence | C |
Who borrow all their hues and qualities | C |
From our own folly and rank wickedness | C |
Which gave them birth and nursed them Others meanwhile | E2 |
Dote with a mad idolatry and all | E3 |
Who will not fall before their images | C |
And yield them worship they are enemies | C |
Even of their country | C |
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Such have I been deemed | C3 |
But O dear Britain O my Mother Isle | E2 |
Needs must thou prove a name most dear and holy | C |
To me a son a brother and a friend | C3 |
A husband and a father who revere | P3 |
All bonds of natural love and find them all | E3 |
Within the limits ot thy rocky shores | C |
O native Britain O my Mother Isle | E2 |
How shouldst thou prove aught else but dear and holy | C |
To me who from thy lakes and mountain hills | C |
Thy clouds thy quiet dales thy rocks and seas | C |
Have drunk in all my intellectual life | N2 |
All sweet sensations all ennobling thoughts | C |
All adoration of the God in nature | T |
All lovely and all honourable things | C |
Whatever makes this mortal spirit feel | Y |
The joy and greatness of its future being | R3 |
There lives nor form nor feeling in my soul | U3 |
Unborrowed from my country O divine | V3 |
And beauteous Island thou hast been my sole | U3 |
And most magnificent temple in the which | S2 |
I walk with awe and sing my stately songs | C |
Loving the God that made me | C |
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May my fears | C |
My filial fears be vain and may the vaunts | C |
And menace of the vengeful enemy | C |
Pass like the gust that roared and died away | C3 |
In the distant tree which heard and only heard | C3 |
In this low dell bowed not the delicate grass | C |
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But now the gentle dew fall sends abroad | C3 |
The fruit like perfume of the golden furze | C |
The light has left the summit of the hill | W3 |
Though still a sunny gleam lies beautiful | X3 |
Aslant the ivied beacon Now farewell | G |
Farewell awhile O soft and silent spot | C3 |
On the green sheep track up the heathy hill | W3 |
Homeward I wind my way and lo recalled | C3 |
From bodings that have well nigh wearied me | C |
I find myself upon the brow and pause | C |
Startled And after lonely sojourning | R3 |
In such a quiet and surrounded nook | R3 |
This burst of prospect here the shadowy main | Y3 |
Dim tinted there the mighty majesty | C |
Of that huge amphitheatre of rich | S2 |
And elmy fields seems like society | C |
Conversing with the mind and giving it | C3 |
A livelier impulse and a dance of thought | C3 |
And now beloved Stowey I behold | C3 |
Thy church tower and methinks the four huge elms | C |
Clustering which mark the mansion of my friend | C3 |
And close behind them hidden from my view | T3 |
Is my own lowly cottage where my babe | Z3 |
And my babe's mother dwell in peace With light | C3 |
And quickened footsteps thitherward I tend | C3 |
Remembering thee O green and silent dell | G |
And grateful that by nature's quietness | C |
And solitary musings all my heart | C3 |
Is softened and made worthy to indulge | A4 |
Love and the thoughts that yearn for human kind | C3 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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