Solitude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDAAAAAAAAAAEEAA FFEEAAGGHHAAIIFFJJAA KKAALLWhere the mocking lyre bird calls | A |
To its mate among the falls | A |
Of the mountain streams that play | B |
Each adown its tortuous way | B |
When the dewy fingered even | C |
Veils the narrowed glimpse of heaven | D |
Where the morning re illumes | A |
Gullies full of ferny plumes | A |
And the roof of radiance weaves | A |
Through high hanging vault of leaves | A |
There mid giant turpentines | A |
Groups of climbing clustering vines | A |
Rocks that stand like sentinels | A |
Guarding native citadels | A |
Lowly flowering shrubs that grace | A |
With their beauty all the place | A |
There I love to wander lonely | E |
With my dog companion only | E |
There indulge unworldly moods | A |
In the mountain solitudes | A |
Far from all the gilded strife | F |
Of our boasted social life | F |
Contemplating spirit free | E |
The majestic company | E |
Grandly marching through the ages | A |
Heroes martyrs bards and sages | A |
They who bravely suffered long | G |
By their struggles waxing strong | G |
For the freedom of the mind | H |
For the rights of humankind | H |
Oh for some awakening cause | A |
Where we face eternal laws | A |
Where we dare not turn aside | I |
Where the souls of men are tried | I |
Something of a nobler strife | F |
Which consumes the dross of life | F |
To unite to truer aim | J |
To exalt to loftier fame | J |
Leave behind the bats and balls | A |
Leave the racers in the stalls | A |
Leave the cards for ever shuffled | K |
Leave the yacht on seas unruffled | K |
Leave the haunts of pampered ease | A |
Leave your dull festivities | A |
Better far the savage glen | L |
Fitter school for earnest men | L |
Sir Henry Parkes
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