To Wordsworth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EFGFHGIJIKGG CLCLMMNFOFCC PPQQRR PP JGGGGJJSS GGTTGGFFUUGGVVGGFF WXGGGThose who have laid the harp aside | A |
And turn'd to idler things | B |
From very restlessness have tried | A |
The loose and dusty strings | B |
And catching back some favourite strain | C |
Run with it o'er the chords again | D |
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But Memory is not a Muse | E |
O Wordsworth though 'tis said | F |
They all descend from her and use | G |
To haunt her fountain head | F |
That other men should work for me | H |
In the rich mines of Poesie | G |
Pleases me better than the toil | I |
Of smoothing under hardened hand | J |
With Attic emery and oil | I |
The shining point for Wisdom's wand | K |
Like those thou temperest 'mid the rills | G |
Descending from thy native hills | G |
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Without his governance in vain | C |
Manhood is strong and Youth is bold | L |
If oftentimes the o'er piled strain | C |
Clogs in the furnace and grows cold | L |
Beneath his pinions deep and frore | M |
And swells and melts and flows no more | M |
That is because the heat beneath | N |
Pants in its cavern poorly fed | F |
Life springs not from the couch of Death | O |
Nor Muse nor Grace can raise the dead | F |
Unturn'd then let the mass remain | C |
Intractable to sun or rain | C |
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A marsh where only flat leaves lie | P |
And showing but the broken sky | P |
Too surely is the sweetest lay | Q |
That wins the ear and wastes the day | Q |
Where youthful Fancy pouts alone | R |
And lets not Wisdom touch her zone | R |
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He who would build his fame up high | P |
The rule and plummet must apply | P |
Nor say 'I'll do what I have plann'd ' | - |
Before he try if loam or sand | J |
Be still remaining in the place | G |
Delved for each polisht pillar's base | G |
With skilful eye and fit device | G |
Thou raisest every edifice | G |
Whether in sheltered vale it stand | J |
Or overlook the Dardan strand | J |
Amid the cypresses that mourn | S |
Laodameia's love forlorn | S |
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We both have run o'er half the space | G |
Listed for mortal's earthly race | G |
We both have crost life's fervid line | T |
And other stars before us shine | T |
May they be bright and prosperous | G |
As those that have been stars for us | G |
Our course by Milton's light was sped | F |
And Shakespeare shining overhead | F |
Chatting on deck was Dryden too | U |
The Bacon of the rhyming crew | U |
None ever crost our mystic sea | G |
More richly stored with thought than he | G |
Tho' never tender nor sublime | V |
He wrestles with and conquers Time | V |
To learn my lore on Chaucer's knee | G |
I left much prouder company | G |
Thee gentle Spenser fondly led | F |
But me he mostly sent to bed | F |
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I wish them every joy above | W |
That highly blessed spirits prove | X |
Save one and that too shall be theirs | G |
But after many rolling years | G |
When 'mid their light thy light appears | G |
Walter Savage Landor
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