The Blossing Of The Solitary Date-tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABB C DEBF GHGAIJK LMNBMOBBBB A PQPQRRR A ARARSSS A TUTUAAA| Beneath 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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