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 BBBXXBNor 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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