To William Wordsworth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDAAEAF GHIJKLAAAMANOPQB RSTAAUAVAAAWXYZAUA2A B2A AC2D2AE2AF2AAG2H2MBI 2J2K2AL2M2AN2O2UUAP2 Q2R2S2 T2U2AAV2W2T X2D2AY2Z2GAA3Q2T B3C3AY2AUPID3T2E3 AF3AD3G3H3I3AD3AC2

Friend of the Wise and Teacher of the GoodA
Into my heart have I received that LayB
More than historic that prophetic LayB
Wherein high theme by thee first sung arightA
Of the foundations and the building upC
Of a Human Spirit thou hast dared to tellD
What may be told to the understanding mindA
Revealable and what within the mindA
By vital breathings secret as the soulE
Of vernal growth oft quickens in the heartA
Thoughts all too deep for wordsF
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Theme hard as highG
Of smiles spontaneous and mysterious fearsH
The first born they of Reason and twin birthI
Of tides obedient to external forceJ
And currents self determined as might seemK
Or by some inner Power of moments awfulL
Now in thy inner life and now abroadA
When power streamed from thee and thy soul receivedA
The light reflected as a light bestowedA
Of fancies fair and milder hours of youthM
Hyblean murmurs of poetic thoughtA
Industrious in its joy in vales and glensN
Native or outland lakes and famous hillsO
Or on the lonely high road when the starsP
Were rising or by secret mountain streamsQ
The guides and the companions of thy wayB
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Of more than Fancy of the Social SenseR
Distending wide and man beloved as manS
Where France in all her towns lay vibratingT
Like some becalm d bark beneath the burstA
Of Heaven's immediate thunder when no cloudA
Is visible or shadow on the mainU
For thou wert there thine own brows garlandedA
Amid the tremor of a realm aglowV
Amid the mighty nation jubilantA
When from the general heart of human kindA
Hope sprang forth like a full born DietyA
Of that dear Hope afflicted and struck downW
So summoned homeward thenceforth calm and sureX
From the dread watch tower of man's absolute selfY
With light unwaning on her eyes to lookZ
Far on herself a glory to beholdA
The Angel of the vision Then last strainU
Of Duty chosen Laws controlling choiceA2
Action and Joy An Orphic song indeedA
A song divine of high and passionate thoughtsB2
To their own music chauntedA
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O great BardA
Ere yet that last strain dying awed the airC2
With stedfast eye I viewed thee in the choirD2
Of ever enduring men The truly greatA
Have all one age and from one visible spaceE2
Shed influence They both in power and actA
Are permanent and Time is not with themF2
Save as it worketh for them they in itA
Nor less a sacred Roll than those of oldA
And to be placed as they with gradual fameG2
Among the archives of mankind thy workH2
Makes audible a link d lay of TruthM
Of Truth profound a sweet continuous layB
Not learnt but native her own natural notesI2
Ah as I listened with a heart forlornJ2
The pulses of my being beat anewK2
And even as Life returns upon the drownedA
Life's joy rekindling roused a throng of painsL2
Keen pangs of Love awakening as a babeM2
Turbulent with an outcry in the heartA
And Fears self willed that shunned the eye of HopeN2
And Hope that scarce would know itself from FearO2
Sense of past Youth and Manhood come in vainU
And Genius given and Knowledge won in vainU
And all which I had culled in wood walks wildA
And all which patient toil had reared and allP2
Commune with thee had opened out but flowersQ2
Strewed on my corse and borne upon my bierR2
In the same coffin for the self same graveS2
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That way no more and ill beseems it meT2
Who came a welcomer in herald's guiseU2
Singing of Glory and FuturityA
To wander back on such unhealthful roadA
Plucking the poisons of self harm And illV2
Such intertwine beseems triumphal wreathsW2
Strew'd before thy advancingT
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Nor do thouX2
Sage Bard impair the memory of that hourD2
Of thy communion with my nobler mindA
By pity or grief already felt too longY2
Nor let my words import more blame than needsZ2
The tumult rose and ceased for Peace is nighG
Where Wisdom's voice has found a listening heartA
Amid the howl of more than wintry stormsA3
The Halcyon hears the voice of vernal hoursQ2
Already on the wingT
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Eve following eveB3
Dear tranquil time when the sweet sense of HomeC3
Is sweetest moments for their own sake hailedA
And more desired more precious for thy songY2
In silence listening like a devout childA
My soul lay passive by thy various strainU
Driven as in surges now beneath the starsP
With momentary stars of my own birthI
Fair constellated foam still darting offD3
Into the darkness now a tranquil seaT2
Outspread and bright yet swelling to the moonE3
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And when O Friend my comforter and guideA
Strong in thyself and powerful to give strengthF3
Thy long sustain d Song finally closedA
And thy deep voice had ceased yet thou thyselfD3
Wert still before my eyes and round us bothG3
That happy vision of belov d facesH3
Scarce conscious and yet conscious of its closeI3
I sate my being blended in one thoughtA
Thought was it or aspiration or resolveD3
Absorbed yet hanging still upon the soundA
And when I rose I found myself in prayerC2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge



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