Hexameters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHI JJFJK EFEJBECECEF L LJJKFFLJ LEE AH| William my teacher my friend dear William and dear Dorothea | A |
| Smooth out the folds of my letter and place it on desk or on table | B |
| Place it on table or desk and your right hands loosely half closing | C |
| Gently sustain them in air and extending the digit didactic | D |
| Rest it a moment on each of the forks of the five fork d left hand | E |
| Twice on the breadth of the thumb and once on the tip of each finger | F |
| Read with a nod of the head in a humouring recitativo | G |
| And as I live you will see my hexameters hopping before you | H |
| This is a galloping measure a hop and a trot and a gallop | I |
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| All my hexameters fly like stags pursued by the staghounds | J |
| Breathless and panting and ready to drop yet flying still onwards | J |
| I would full fain pull in my hard mouthed runaway hunter | F |
| But our English Spondeans are clumsy yet impotent curb reins | J |
| And so to make him go slowly no way left have I but to lame him | K |
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| William my head and my heart dear Poet that feelest and thinkest | E |
| Dorothy eager of soul my most affectionate sister | F |
| Many a mile O many a wearisome mile are ye distant | E |
| Long long comfortless roads with no one eye that doth know us | J |
| O it is all too far to send to you mockeries idle | B |
| Yea and I feel it not right But O my friends my belov d | E |
| Feverish and wakeful I lie I am weary of feeling and thinking | C |
| Every thought is worn down I am weary yet cannot be vacant | E |
| Five long hours have I tossed rheumatic heats dry and flushing | C |
| Gnawing behind in my head and wandering and throbbing about me | E |
| Busy and tiresome my friends as the beat of the boding night spider | F |
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| I forget the beginning of the line | L |
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| Image Image Image Image Image my eyes are a burthen | L |
| Now unwillingly closed now open and aching with darkness | J |
| O what a life is the eye what a strange and inscrutable essence | J |
| Him that is utterly blind nor glimpses the fire that warms him | K |
| Him that never beheld the swelling breast of his mother | F |
| Him that smiled in his gladness as a babe that smiles in its slumber | F |
| Even for him it exists it moves and stirs in its prison | L |
| Lives with a separate life and Is it a Spirit ' he murmurs | J |
| Sure it has thoughts of its own and to see is only a language ' | - |
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| There was a great deal more which I have forgotten The last line | L |
| which I wrote I remember and write it for the truth of the sentiment | E |
| scarcely less true in company than in pain and solitude | E |
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| William my head and my heart dear William and dear Dorothea | A |
| You have all in each other but I am lonely and want you | H |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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