This Lime-tree Bower My Prison Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEDF GHIJKLMNOPAQRSTUVWMX YLZA2B2C2D2E2F2G2EGH 2AI2J2K2L2M2N2O2P2Q2 R2WE2FS2T2U2A2V2A2EW 2X2Y2Z2X2A2A3B3C3D3E 3X2M2F3C3G3C3DWA2TH3 I3J3

Addressed to Charles Lamb of the India House LondonA
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In the June of some long expected friends paid a visitB
to the author's cottage and on the morning of their arrivalC
he met with an accident which disabled him from walkingD
during the whole time of their stay One evening when theyE
had left him for a few hours he composed the followingD
lines in the garden bowerF
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Well they are gone and here must I remainG
This lime tree bower my prison I have lostH
Beauties and feelings such as would have beenI
Most sweet to my remembrance even when ageJ
Had dimm'd mine eyes to blindness They meanwhileK
Friends whom I never more may meet againL
On springy heath along the hill top edgeM
Wander in gladness and wind down perchanceN
To that still roaring dell of which I toldO
The roaring dell o'erwooded narrow deepP
And only specked by the mid day sunA
Where its slim trunk the ash from rock to rockQ
Flings arching like a bridge that branchless ashR
Unsunn'd and damp whose few poor yellow leavesS
Ne'er tremble in the gale yet tremble stillT
Fann'd by the water fall and there my friendsU
Behold the dark green file of long lank weedsV
That all at once a most fantastic sightW
Still nod and drip beneath the dripping edgeM
Of the blue clay stoneX
Now my friends emergeY
Beneath the wide wide Heaven and view againL
The many steepled tract magnificentZ
Of hilly fields and meadows and the seaA2
With some fair bark perhaps whose sails light upB2
The slip of smooth clear blue betwixt two IslesC2
Of purple shadow Yes they wander onD2
In gladness all but thou methinks most gladE2
My gentle hearted Charles for thou hast pinedF2
And hunger'd after Nature many a yearG2
In the great City pent winning thy wayE
With sad yet patient soul through evil and painG
And strange calamity Ah Slowly sinkH2
Behind the western ridge thou glorious SunA
Shine in the slant beams of the sinking orbI2
Ye purple heath flowers richlier burn ye cloudsJ2
Live in the yellow light ye distant grovesK2
And kindle thou blue Ocean So my friendL2
Struck with deep joy may stand as I have stoodM2
Silent with swimming sense yea gazing roundN2
On the wide landscape gaze till all doth seemO2
Less gross than bodily and of such huesP2
As veil the Almighty Spirit when yet he makesQ2
Spirits perceive his presenceR2
A delightW
Comes sudden on my heart and I am gladE2
As I myself were there Nor in this bowerF
This little lime tree bower have I not mark'dS2
Much that has sooth'd me Pale beneath the blazeT2
Hung the transparent foliage and I watch'dU2
Some broad and sunny leaf and lov'd to seeA2
The shadow of the leaf and stem aboveV2
Dappling its sunshine And that walnut treeA2
Was richly ting'd and a deep radiance layE
Full on the ancient ivy which usurpsW2
Those fronting elms and now with blackest massX2
Makes their dark branches gleam a lighter hueY2
Through the late twilight and though now the batZ2
Wheels silent by and not a swallow twittersX2
Yet still the solitary humble beeA2
Sings in the bean flower Henceforth I shall knowA3
That Nature ne'er deserts the wise and pureB3
No plot so narrow be but Nature thereC3
No waste so vacant but may well employD3
Each faculty of sense and keep the heartE3
Awake to love and Beauty and sometimesX2
'Tis well to be bereft of promis'd goodM2
That we may lift the soul and contemplateF3
With lively joy the joys we cannot shareC3
My gentle hearted Charles when the last rookG3
Beat its straight path along the dusky airC3
Homewards I blest it deeming its black wingD
Now a dim speck now vanishing in lightW
Had cross'd the mighty Orb's dilated gloryA2
While thou stood'st gazing or when all was stillT
Flew creeking o'er thy head and had a charmH3
For thee my gentle hearted Charles to whomI3
No sound is dissonant which tells of LifeJ3

Samuel Taylor Coleridge



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