The Blossing Of The Solitary Date-tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABB C DEBF GHGAIJK LMNBMOBBBB A PQPQRRR A ARARSSS A TUTUAAABeneath the blaze of a tropical sun the mountain peaks are the Thrones of | A |
Frost through the absence of objects to reflect the rays What no one | B |
with us shares seems scarce our own ' The presence of a ONE | B |
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The best belov'd who loveth me the best | C |
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is for the heart what the supporting air from within is for the hollow | D |
globe with its suspended car Deprive it of this and all without that | E |
would have buoyed it aloft even to the seat of the gods becomes a burthen | B |
and crushes it into flatness | F |
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II | - |
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The finer the sense for the beautiful and the lovely and the fairer and | G |
lovelier the object presented to the sense the more exquisite the | H |
individual's capacity of joy and the more ample his means and | G |
opportunities of enjoyment the more heavily will he feel the ache of | A |
solitariness the more unsubstantial becomes the feast spread around him | I |
What matters it whether in fact the viands and the ministering graces are | J |
shadowy or real to him who has not hand to grasp nor arms to embrace them | K |
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III | - |
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Hope Imagination honourable Aims | L |
Free Commune with the choir that cannot die | M |
Science and Song delight in little things | N |
The buoyant child surviving in the man | B |
Fields forests ancient mountains ocean sky | M |
With all their voices O dare I accuse | O |
My earthly lot as guilty of my spleen | B |
Or call my destiny niggard O no no | B |
It is her largeness and her overflow | B |
Which being incomplete disquieteth me so | B |
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IV | A |
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For never touch of gladness stirs my heart | P |
But tim'rously beginning to rejoice | Q |
Like a blind Arab that from sleep doth start | P |
In lonesome tent I listen for thy voice | Q |
Belov d 'tis not thine thou art not there | R |
Then melts the bubble into idle air | R |
And wishing without hope I restlessly despair | R |
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V | A |
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The mother with anticipated glee | A |
Smiles o'er the child that standing by her chair | R |
And flatt'ning its round cheek upon her knee | A |
Looks up and doth its rosy lips prepare | R |
To mock the coming sounds At that sweet sight | S |
She hears her own voice with a new delight | S |
And if the babe perchance should lisp the notes aright | S |
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VI | A |
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Then is she tenfold gladder than before | T |
But should disease or chance the darling take | U |
What then avail those songs which sweet of yore | T |
Were only sweet for their sweet echo's sake | U |
Dear maid no prattler at a mother's knee | A |
Was e'er so dearly prized as I prize thee | A |
Why was I made for Love and Love denied to me | A |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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