Reflections On Having Left A Place Of Retirement Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BACADEFGHIFJKLEMNAOP QRIST UVWVXYVZVAA2B2VVC2VD 2 E2VVF2VG2FH2NI2J2C2V K2VVL2VVV M2N2VBAVO2VP2

Sermoni propriora HorA
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Low was our pretty Cot our tallest RoseB
Peep'd at the chamber window We could hearA
At silent noon and eve and early mornC
The Sea's faint murmur In the open airA
Our Myrtles blossom'd and across the porchD
Thick Jasmins twined the little landscape roundE
Was green and woody and refresh'd the eyeF
It was a spot which you might aptly callG
The Valley of Seclusion Once I sawH
Hallowing his Sabbath day by quietnessI
A wealthy son of commerce saunter byF
Bristowa's citizen methought it calm'dJ
His thirst of idle gold and made him museK
With wiser feelings for he paus'd and look'dL
With a pleas'd sadness and gaz'd all aroundE
Then eyed our Cottage and gaz'd round againM
And sigh'd and said it was a Blessed PlaceN
And we were bless'd Oft with patient earA
Long listening to the viewless sky lark's noteO
Viewless or haply for a moment seenP
Gleaming on sunny wings in whisper'd tonesQ
I've said to my Beloved 'Such sweet GirlR
The inobtrusive song of HappinessI
Unearthly minstrelsy then only heardS
When the Soul seeks to hear when all is hush'dT
And the Heart listens '-
But the time when firstU
From that low Dell steep up the stony MountV
I climb'd with perilous toil and reach'd the topW
Oh what a goodly scene the bleak mountV
The bare bleak mountain speckled thin with sheepX
Grey clouds that shadowing spot the sunny fieldsY
And river now with bushy rocks o'erbrow'dV
Now winding bright and full with naked banksZ
And seats and lawns the Abbey and the woodV
And cots and hamlets and faint city spireA
The Channel the Islands and white sailsA2
Dim coasts and cloud like hills and shoreless OceanB2
It seem'd like Omnipresence God methoughtV
Had built him there a Temple the whole WorldV
Seem'd in its vast circumferenceC2
No profan'd my overwhelmed heartV
Blest hour It was a luxury to beD2
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Ah quiet Dell dear Cot and Mount sublimeE2
I was constrain'd to quit you Was it rightV
While my unnumber'd brethren toil'd and bledV
That I should dream away the entrusted hoursF2
On rose leaf beds pampering the coward heartV
With feelings all too delicate for useG2
Sweet is the tear that from some Howard's eyeF
Drops on the cheek of one he lifts from earthH2
And he that works me good with unmov'd faceN
Does it but half he chills me while he aidsI2
My benefactor not my brother manJ2
Yet even this this cold beneficenceC2
Praise praise it O my Soul oft as thou scann'stV
The sluggard Pity's vision weaving tribeK2
Who sigh for Wretchedness yet shun the WretchedV
Nursing in some delicious solitudeV
Their slothful loves and dainty sympathiesL2
I therefore go and join head heart and handV
Active and firm to fight the bloodless fightV
Of Science Freedom and the Truth in ChristV
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Yet oft when after honourable toilM2
Rests the tir'd mind and waking loves to dreamN2
My spirit shall revisit thee dear CotV
Thy Jasmin and thy window peeping RoseB
And Myrtles fearless of the mild sea airA
And I shall sigh fond wishes sweet AbodeV
Ah had none greater And that all had suchO2
It might be so but the time is not yetV
Speed it O Father Let thy Kingdom comeP2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge



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