To A Lady, With Falconer's 'shipwreck' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ CCCC CKCK| Oh not by Cam or Isis famous streams | A |
| In arched groves the youthful poet's choice | B |
| Nor while half listening mid delicious dreams | A |
| To harp and song from lady's hand and voice | B |
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| Nor yet while gazing in sublimer mood | C |
| On cliff or cataract in Alpine dell | D |
| Nor in dim cave with bladdery sea weed strewed | C |
| Framing wild fancies to the ocean's swell | D |
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| Our sea bard sang this song which still he sings | E |
| And sings for thee sweet friend Hark Pity hark | F |
| Now mounts now totters on the tempest's wings | E |
| Now groans and shivers the replunging bark | F |
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| 'Cling to the shrouds ' In vain The breakers roar | G |
| Death shrieks With two alone of all his clan | H |
| Forlorn the poet paced the Grecian shore | G |
| No classic roamer but a ship wrecked man | H |
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| Say then what muse inspired these genial strains | I |
| And lit his spirit to so bright a flame | J |
| The elevating thought of suffered pains | I |
| Which gentle hearts shall mourn but chief the name | J |
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| Of gratitude remembrance of friend | C |
| Or absent or no more shades of the Past | C |
| Which Loves make substance Hence to thee I send | C |
| O dear as long as life and memory last | C |
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| I send with deep regards of heart and head | C |
| Sweet maid for friendship formed this work to thee | K |
| And thou the while thou canst not choose but shed | C |
| A tear for Falconer wilt remember me | K |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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