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 Good | A |
| Into my heart have I received that Lay | B |
| More than historic that prophetic Lay | B |
| Wherein high theme by thee first sung aright | A |
| Of the foundations and the building up | C |
| Of a Human Spirit thou hast dared to tell | D |
| What may be told to the understanding mind | A |
| Revealable and what within the mind | A |
| By vital breathings secret as the soul | E |
| Of vernal growth oft quickens in the heart | A |
| Thoughts all too deep for words | F |
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| Theme hard as high | G |
| Of smiles spontaneous and mysterious fears | H |
| The first born they of Reason and twin birth | I |
| Of tides obedient to external force | J |
| And currents self determined as might seem | K |
| Or by some inner Power of moments awful | L |
| Now in thy inner life and now abroad | A |
| When power streamed from thee and thy soul received | A |
| The light reflected as a light bestowed | A |
| Of fancies fair and milder hours of youth | M |
| Hyblean murmurs of poetic thought | A |
| Industrious in its joy in vales and glens | N |
| Native or outland lakes and famous hills | O |
| Or on the lonely high road when the stars | P |
| Were rising or by secret mountain streams | Q |
| The guides and the companions of thy way | B |
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| Of more than Fancy of the Social Sense | R |
| Distending wide and man beloved as man | S |
| Where France in all her towns lay vibrating | T |
| Like some becalm d bark beneath the burst | A |
| Of Heaven's immediate thunder when no cloud | A |
| Is visible or shadow on the main | U |
| For thou wert there thine own brows garlanded | A |
| Amid the tremor of a realm aglow | V |
| Amid the mighty nation jubilant | A |
| When from the general heart of human kind | A |
| Hope sprang forth like a full born Diety | A |
| Of that dear Hope afflicted and struck down | W |
| So summoned homeward thenceforth calm and sure | X |
| From the dread watch tower of man's absolute self | Y |
| With light unwaning on her eyes to look | Z |
| Far on herself a glory to behold | A |
| The Angel of the vision Then last strain | U |
| Of Duty chosen Laws controlling choice | A2 |
| Action and Joy An Orphic song indeed | A |
| A song divine of high and passionate thoughts | B2 |
| To their own music chaunted | A |
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| O great Bard | A |
| Ere yet that last strain dying awed the air | C2 |
| With stedfast eye I viewed thee in the choir | D2 |
| Of ever enduring men The truly great | A |
| Have all one age and from one visible space | E2 |
| Shed influence They both in power and act | A |
| Are permanent and Time is not with them | F2 |
| Save as it worketh for them they in it | A |
| Nor less a sacred Roll than those of old | A |
| And to be placed as they with gradual fame | G2 |
| Among the archives of mankind thy work | H2 |
| Makes audible a link d lay of Truth | M |
| Of Truth profound a sweet continuous lay | B |
| Not learnt but native her own natural notes | I2 |
| Ah as I listened with a heart forlorn | J2 |
| The pulses of my being beat anew | K2 |
| And even as Life returns upon the drowned | A |
| Life's joy rekindling roused a throng of pains | L2 |
| Keen pangs of Love awakening as a babe | M2 |
| Turbulent with an outcry in the heart | A |
| And Fears self willed that shunned the eye of Hope | N2 |
| And Hope that scarce would know itself from Fear | O2 |
| Sense of past Youth and Manhood come in vain | U |
| And Genius given and Knowledge won in vain | U |
| And all which I had culled in wood walks wild | A |
| And all which patient toil had reared and all | P2 |
| Commune with thee had opened out but flowers | Q2 |
| Strewed on my corse and borne upon my bier | R2 |
| In the same coffin for the self same grave | S2 |
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| That way no more and ill beseems it me | T2 |
| Who came a welcomer in herald's guise | U2 |
| Singing of Glory and Futurity | A |
| To wander back on such unhealthful road | A |
| Plucking the poisons of self harm And ill | V2 |
| Such intertwine beseems triumphal wreaths | W2 |
| Strew'd before thy advancing | T |
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| Nor do thou | X2 |
| Sage Bard impair the memory of that hour | D2 |
| Of thy communion with my nobler mind | A |
| By pity or grief already felt too long | Y2 |
| Nor let my words import more blame than needs | Z2 |
| The tumult rose and ceased for Peace is nigh | G |
| Where Wisdom's voice has found a listening heart | A |
| Amid the howl of more than wintry storms | A3 |
| The Halcyon hears the voice of vernal hours | Q2 |
| Already on the wing | T |
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| Eve following eve | B3 |
| Dear tranquil time when the sweet sense of Home | C3 |
| Is sweetest moments for their own sake hailed | A |
| And more desired more precious for thy song | Y2 |
| In silence listening like a devout child | A |
| My soul lay passive by thy various strain | U |
| Driven as in surges now beneath the stars | P |
| With momentary stars of my own birth | I |
| Fair constellated foam still darting off | D3 |
| Into the darkness now a tranquil sea | T2 |
| Outspread and bright yet swelling to the moon | E3 |
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| And when O Friend my comforter and guide | A |
| Strong in thyself and powerful to give strength | F3 |
| Thy long sustain d Song finally closed | A |
| And thy deep voice had ceased yet thou thyself | D3 |
| Wert still before my eyes and round us both | G3 |
| That happy vision of belov d faces | H3 |
| Scarce conscious and yet conscious of its close | I3 |
| I sate my being blended in one thought | A |
| Thought was it or aspiration or resolve | D3 |
| Absorbed yet hanging still upon the sound | A |
| And when I rose I found myself in prayer | C2 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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