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 eyeA
The starry wilderness on highA
Nor now with curious sightB
I mark the glow worm as I passC
Move with 'green radiance' thro' the grassC
An emerald of lightB
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O ever present to my viewD
My wafted spirit is with youD
And soothes your boding fearsE
I see you all opprest with gloomF
Sit lonely in that cheerless roomF
Ah me you are in tearsG
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Belov d woman did you flyA
Chilled friendship's dark disliking eyeA
Or mirth's untimely dinH
With cruel weight these trifles pressI
A temper sore with tendernessJ
When aches the void withinH
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But why with sable wand unblestB
Should fancy rouse within my breastB
Dim visaged shapes of dreadB
Untenanting its beauteous clayK
My Sara's soul has winged its wayK
And hovers round my headB
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I felt it prompt the tender dreamL
When slowly sunk the day's last gleamL
You roused each gentler senseM
As sighing o'er the blossom's bloomF
Meek evening wakes its soft perfumeF
With viewless influenceN
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And hark my love The sea breeze moansO
Thro' yon reft house O'er rolling stonesO
With broad impetuous sweepP
The fast encroaching tides supplyA
The silence of the cloudless skyA
With mimic thunders deepP
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Dark redd'ning from the channel'd isleQ
Where stands one solitary pileQ
Unslated by the blastB
The watchfire like a sullen starR
Twinkles to many a dozing starR
Rude cradled on the mastB
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Ev'n there beneath that light house towerS
In the tumultuous evil hourS
Ere peace with Sara cameT
Time was I should have thought it sweetB
To count the echoings of my feetB
And watch the troubled flameT
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And there in black soul jaundiced fitB
A sad gloom pampered man to sitB
And listen to the roarU
When mountain surges bellowing deepP
With an uncouth monster leapP
Plunged foaming on the shoreU
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Then by the lightning's blaze to markV
Some toiling tempest shattered barkV
Her vain distress guns hearW
And when a second sheet of lightB
Flashed o'er the blackness of the nightB
To see no vessel thereX
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But fancy now more gayly singsY
Or if awhile she droop her wingsY
As skylark's 'mid the cornZ
On summer fields she grounds her breastB
Th' oblivious poppy o'er her nestB
Nods till returning mornZ
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O mark those smiling tears that swellA2
The opened rose From heaven they fellA2
And with the sunbeam blendB
Blessed visitations from aboveB2
Such are the tender woes of loveB2
Fost'ring the heart they bendB
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When stormy midnight howling roundB
Beats on our roof with clatt'ring soundB
To me your arms you'll stretchC2
Great God you'll say To us so kindB
O shelter from this loud bleak windB
The houseless friendless wretchC2
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The tears that tremble down your cheekD2
Shall bathe my kisses chaste and meekD2
In pity's dew divineE2
And from your heart the sighs that stealF2
Shall make your rising bosom feelF2
The answ'ring swell of mineE2
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How oft my love with shapings sweetB
I paint the monument we shall meetB
With eager speed I dartB
I seize you in the vacant airX
And fancy with a husband's careX
I press you to my heartB

Samuel Taylor Coleridge



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