I Wonder Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCDD EFEFF GHGHH IJIJJ KLKLL BMBMM NHNHH BOBOO CLCLL PQPQQ QLQLL RSRSS LTLTT QUQUU VLVVVI wonder if in that far isle | A |
Some child is growing now like me | B |
When I was child care pricked yet healed the while | A |
With balm of rock and sea | B |
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I wonder if the purple ring | C |
That rises on a belt of blue | D |
Provokes the little bashful thing | C |
To guess what may ensue | D |
When he has pierced the screen and holds the further clue | D |
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I wonder if beyond the verge | E |
He dim conjectures England's coast | F |
The land of Edwards and of Henries scourge | E |
Of insolent foemen at the most | F |
Faint caught where Cumbria looms a geographic ghost | F |
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I wonder if to him the sycamore | G |
Is full of green and tender light | H |
If the gnarled ash stands stunted at the door | G |
By salt sea blast defrauded of its right | H |
If budding larches feed the hunger of his sight | H |
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I wonder if to him the dewy globes | I |
Like mercury nestle in the caper leaf | J |
If when the white narcissus dons its robes | I |
It soothes his childish grief | J |
If silver plates the birch gold rustles in the sheaf | J |
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I wonder if to him the heath clad mountain | K |
With crimson pigment fills the sensuous cells | L |
If like full bubbles from an emerald fountain | K |
Gorse bloom luxuriant wells | L |
If God with trenchant forms the insolent lushness quells | L |
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I wonder if the hills are long and lonely | B |
That North from South divide | M |
I wonder if he thinks that it is only | B |
The hither slope where men abide | M |
Unto all mortal homes refused the other side | M |
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I wonder if some day he chance conducted | N |
Attains the vantage of the utmost height | H |
And by his own discovery instructed | N |
Sees grassy plain and cottage white | H |
Each human sign and pledge that feeds him with delight | H |
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At eventide when lads with lasses dally | B |
And milking Pei sits singing at the pail | O |
I wonder if he hears along the valley | B |
The wind's sad sough half credulous of the tale | O |
How from Slieu whallian moans the murdered witches' wail | O |
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I wonder if to him the Boat descending | C |
From the proud East his spirit fills | L |
With a strange joy adventurous ardour lending | C |
To the mute soul that thrills | L |
As booms the herald gun and westward wakes the hills | L |
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I wonder if he loves that Captain bold | P |
Who has the horny hand | Q |
Who swears the mighty oath who well can hold | P |
Half drunk serene command | Q |
And guide his straining bark to refuge of the land | Q |
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I wonder if he thinks the world has aught | Q |
Of strong or nobly wise | L |
Like him by whom the invisible land is caught | Q |
With instinct true nor storms nor midnight skies | L |
Avert the settled aim or daunt the keen emprise | L |
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I wonder if he deems the English men | R |
A higher type beyond his reach | S |
Imperial blood by Heaven ordained with pen | R |
And sword the populous world to teach | S |
If awed he hears the tones as of an alien speech | S |
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Or older grown suspects a braggart race | L |
Ignores phlegmatic claim | T |
Of privileged assumption holding base | L |
Their technic skill and aim | T |
And all the prosperous fraud that binds their social frame | T |
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Young rebel how he pants who knows not what | Q |
He hates yet hates all one to him | U |
If Guelph or Buonaparte or sans culotte | Q |
If Strafford or if Pym | U |
Usurp the clumsy helm if England sink or swim | U |
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Ah crude undisciplined when thou shalt know | V |
What good is in this England still of joys | L |
The chiefest count it thou wast nurtured so | V |
That thou may'st keep the larger equipoise | V |
And stand outside these nations and their noise | V |
Thomas Edward Brown
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Carrel Sabrina A. Falos: this is actually like a very good poem but as an English teacher and a valedictorian student I will say this is very good and very relaxing to read but I am just worried about the grammar a bit but nice job and keep it up.
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