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