This Lime-tree Bower My Prison Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEDF GHIJKLMNOPAQRSTUVWMX YLZA2B2C2D2E2F2G2EGH 2AI2J2K2L2M2N2O2P2Q2 R2WE2FS2T2U2A2V2A2EW 2X2Y2Z2X2A2A3B3C3D3E 3X2M2F3C3G3C3DWA2TH3 I3J3Addressed to Charles Lamb of the India House London | A |
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In the June of some long expected friends paid a visit | B |
to the author's cottage and on the morning of their arrival | C |
he met with an accident which disabled him from walking | D |
during the whole time of their stay One evening when they | E |
had left him for a few hours he composed the following | D |
lines in the garden bower | F |
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Well they are gone and here must I remain | G |
This lime tree bower my prison I have lost | H |
Beauties and feelings such as would have been | I |
Most sweet to my remembrance even when age | J |
Had dimm'd mine eyes to blindness They meanwhile | K |
Friends whom I never more may meet again | L |
On springy heath along the hill top edge | M |
Wander in gladness and wind down perchance | N |
To that still roaring dell of which I told | O |
The roaring dell o'erwooded narrow deep | P |
And only specked by the mid day sun | A |
Where its slim trunk the ash from rock to rock | Q |
Flings arching like a bridge that branchless ash | R |
Unsunn'd and damp whose few poor yellow leaves | S |
Ne'er tremble in the gale yet tremble still | T |
Fann'd by the water fall and there my friends | U |
Behold the dark green file of long lank weeds | V |
That all at once a most fantastic sight | W |
Still nod and drip beneath the dripping edge | M |
Of the blue clay stone | X |
Now my friends emerge | Y |
Beneath the wide wide Heaven and view again | L |
The many steepled tract magnificent | Z |
Of hilly fields and meadows and the sea | A2 |
With some fair bark perhaps whose sails light up | B2 |
The slip of smooth clear blue betwixt two Isles | C2 |
Of purple shadow Yes they wander on | D2 |
In gladness all but thou methinks most glad | E2 |
My gentle hearted Charles for thou hast pined | F2 |
And hunger'd after Nature many a year | G2 |
In the great City pent winning thy way | E |
With sad yet patient soul through evil and pain | G |
And strange calamity Ah Slowly sink | H2 |
Behind the western ridge thou glorious Sun | A |
Shine in the slant beams of the sinking orb | I2 |
Ye purple heath flowers richlier burn ye clouds | J2 |
Live in the yellow light ye distant groves | K2 |
And kindle thou blue Ocean So my friend | L2 |
Struck with deep joy may stand as I have stood | M2 |
Silent with swimming sense yea gazing round | N2 |
On the wide landscape gaze till all doth seem | O2 |
Less gross than bodily and of such hues | P2 |
As veil the Almighty Spirit when yet he makes | Q2 |
Spirits perceive his presence | R2 |
A delight | W |
Comes sudden on my heart and I am glad | E2 |
As I myself were there Nor in this bower | F |
This little lime tree bower have I not mark'd | S2 |
Much that has sooth'd me Pale beneath the blaze | T2 |
Hung the transparent foliage and I watch'd | U2 |
Some broad and sunny leaf and lov'd to see | A2 |
The shadow of the leaf and stem above | V2 |
Dappling its sunshine And that walnut tree | A2 |
Was richly ting'd and a deep radiance lay | E |
Full on the ancient ivy which usurps | W2 |
Those fronting elms and now with blackest mass | X2 |
Makes their dark branches gleam a lighter hue | Y2 |
Through the late twilight and though now the bat | Z2 |
Wheels silent by and not a swallow twitters | X2 |
Yet still the solitary humble bee | A2 |
Sings in the bean flower Henceforth I shall know | A3 |
That Nature ne'er deserts the wise and pure | B3 |
No plot so narrow be but Nature there | C3 |
No waste so vacant but may well employ | D3 |
Each faculty of sense and keep the heart | E3 |
Awake to love and Beauty and sometimes | X2 |
'Tis well to be bereft of promis'd good | M2 |
That we may lift the soul and contemplate | F3 |
With lively joy the joys we cannot share | C3 |
My gentle hearted Charles when the last rook | G3 |
Beat its straight path along the dusky air | C3 |
Homewards I blest it deeming its black wing | D |
Now a dim speck now vanishing in light | W |
Had cross'd the mighty Orb's dilated glory | A2 |
While thou stood'st gazing or when all was still | T |
Flew creeking o'er thy head and had a charm | H3 |
For thee my gentle hearted Charles to whom | I3 |
No sound is dissonant which tells of Life | J3 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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