Ode To Sara, In Answer To A Letter From Bristol Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFG AAHIJH BBBKKB LLMFFN OOPAAP QQBRRB SSTBBT BBUPPU VVWBBX YYZBBZ A2A2BB2B2B BBC2BBC2 D2D2E2F2F2E2 BBBXXB| Nor travels my meand'ring eye | A |
| The starry wilderness on high | A |
| Nor now with curious sight | B |
| I mark the glow worm as I pass | C |
| Move with 'green radiance' thro' the grass | C |
| An emerald of light | B |
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| O ever present to my view | D |
| My wafted spirit is with you | D |
| And soothes your boding fears | E |
| I see you all opprest with gloom | F |
| Sit lonely in that cheerless room | F |
| Ah me you are in tears | G |
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| Belov d woman did you fly | A |
| Chilled friendship's dark disliking eye | A |
| Or mirth's untimely din | H |
| With cruel weight these trifles press | I |
| A temper sore with tenderness | J |
| When aches the void within | H |
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| But why with sable wand unblest | B |
| Should fancy rouse within my breast | B |
| Dim visaged shapes of dread | B |
| Untenanting its beauteous clay | K |
| My Sara's soul has winged its way | K |
| And hovers round my head | B |
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| I felt it prompt the tender dream | L |
| When slowly sunk the day's last gleam | L |
| You roused each gentler sense | M |
| As sighing o'er the blossom's bloom | F |
| Meek evening wakes its soft perfume | F |
| With viewless influence | N |
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| And hark my love The sea breeze moans | O |
| Thro' yon reft house O'er rolling stones | O |
| With broad impetuous sweep | P |
| The fast encroaching tides supply | A |
| The silence of the cloudless sky | A |
| With mimic thunders deep | P |
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| Dark redd'ning from the channel'd isle | Q |
| Where stands one solitary pile | Q |
| Unslated by the blast | B |
| The watchfire like a sullen star | R |
| Twinkles to many a dozing star | R |
| Rude cradled on the mast | B |
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| Ev'n there beneath that light house tower | S |
| In the tumultuous evil hour | S |
| Ere peace with Sara came | T |
| Time was I should have thought it sweet | B |
| To count the echoings of my feet | B |
| And watch the troubled flame | T |
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| And there in black soul jaundiced fit | B |
| A sad gloom pampered man to sit | B |
| And listen to the roar | U |
| When mountain surges bellowing deep | P |
| With an uncouth monster leap | P |
| Plunged foaming on the shore | U |
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| Then by the lightning's blaze to mark | V |
| Some toiling tempest shattered bark | V |
| Her vain distress guns hear | W |
| And when a second sheet of light | B |
| Flashed o'er the blackness of the night | B |
| To see no vessel there | X |
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| But fancy now more gayly sings | Y |
| Or if awhile she droop her wings | Y |
| As skylark's 'mid the corn | Z |
| On summer fields she grounds her breast | B |
| Th' oblivious poppy o'er her nest | B |
| Nods till returning morn | Z |
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| O mark those smiling tears that swell | A2 |
| The opened rose From heaven they fell | A2 |
| And with the sunbeam blend | B |
| Blessed visitations from above | B2 |
| Such are the tender woes of love | B2 |
| Fost'ring the heart they bend | B |
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| When stormy midnight howling round | B |
| Beats on our roof with clatt'ring sound | B |
| To me your arms you'll stretch | C2 |
| Great God you'll say To us so kind | B |
| O shelter from this loud bleak wind | B |
| The houseless friendless wretch | C2 |
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| The tears that tremble down your cheek | D2 |
| Shall bathe my kisses chaste and meek | D2 |
| In pity's dew divine | E2 |
| And from your heart the sighs that steal | F2 |
| Shall make your rising bosom feel | F2 |
| The answ'ring swell of mine | E2 |
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| How oft my love with shapings sweet | B |
| I paint the monument we shall meet | B |
| With eager speed I dart | B |
| I seize you in the vacant air | X |
| And fancy with a husband's care | X |
| I press you to my heart | B |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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