The Eolian Harp Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJKILMNOAPQRS THUVWXYZGAEA2AB2 C2DD2DD2D2WDWD2AD2WW E2 HWD2D2D2D2D2F2XG2H2W IDWD2| Composed at Clevedon Somersetshire | A |
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| My pensive Sara thy soft cheek reclined | B |
| Thus on mine arm most soothing sweet it is | C |
| To sit beside our Cot our Cot o'ergrown | D |
| With white flower'd Jasmin and the broad leav'd Myrtle | E |
| Meet emblems they of Innocence and Love | F |
| And watch the clouds that late were rich with light | G |
| Slow saddening round and mark the star of eve | H |
| Serenely brilliant such should Wisdom be | I |
| Shine opposite How exquisite the scents | J |
| Snatch'd from yon bean field and the world so hushed | K |
| The stilly murmur of the distant Sea | I |
| Tells us of silence | L |
| And that simplest Lute | M |
| Placed length ways in the clasping casement hark | N |
| How by the desultory breeze caress'd | O |
| Like some coy maid half yielding to her lover | A |
| It pours such sweet upbraiding as must needs | P |
| Tempt to repeat the wrong And now its strings | Q |
| Boldlier swept the long sequacious notes | R |
| Over delicious surges sink and rise | S |
| Such a soft floating witchery of sound | T |
| As twilight Elfins make when they at eve | H |
| Voyage on gentle gales from Fairy Land | U |
| Where Melodies round honey dripping flowers | V |
| Footless and wild like birds of Paradise | W |
| Nor pause nor perch hovering on untam'd wing | X |
| O the one Life within us and abroad | Y |
| Which meets all motion and becomes its soul | Z |
| A light in sound a sound like power in light | G |
| Rhythm in all thought and joyance every where | A |
| Methinks it should have been impossible | E |
| Not to love all things in a world so fill'd | A2 |
| Where the breeze warbles and the mute still air | A |
| Is Music slumbering on her instrument | B2 |
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| And thus my Love as on the midway slope | C2 |
| Of yonder hill I stretch my limbs at noon | D |
| Whilst through my half clos'd eye lids I behold | D2 |
| The sunbeams dance like diamonds on the main | D |
| And tranquil muse upon tranquillity | D2 |
| Full many a thought uncall'd and undetain'd | D2 |
| And many idle flitting phantasies | W |
| Traverse my indolent and passive brain | D |
| As wild and various as the random gales | W |
| That swell and flutter on this subject Lute | D2 |
| And what if all of animated nature | A |
| Be but organic Harps diversely fram'd | D2 |
| That tremble into thought as o'er them sweeps | W |
| Plastic and vast one intellectual breeze | W |
| At once the Soul of each and God of all | E2 |
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| But thy more serious eye a mild reproof | H |
| Darts O belov eacute d Woman nor such thoughts | W |
| Dim and unhallow'd dost thou not reject | D2 |
| And biddest me walk humbly with my God | D2 |
| Meek Daughter in the family of Christ | D2 |
| Well hast thou said and holily disprais'd | D2 |
| These shapings of the unregenerate mind | D2 |
| Bubbles that glitter as they rise and break | F2 |
| On vain Philosophy's aye babbling spring | X |
| For never guiltless may I speak of him | G2 |
| The Incomprehensible save when with awe | H2 |
| I praise him and with Faith that inly feels | W |
| Who with his saving mercies heal eacute d me | I |
| A sinful and most miserable man | D |
| Wilder'd and dark and gave me to possess | W |
| Peace and this Cot and thee heart honour'd Maid | D2 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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