Waverly Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFF GGHHIJKKLLMMMM NNMMMMOO PPQQRRIISS| Late when the Autumn evening fell | A |
| On Mirkwood Mere's romantic dell | A |
| The lake return'd in chasten'd gleam | B |
| The purple cloud the golden beam | B |
| Reflected in the crystal pool | C |
| Headland and bank lay fair and cool | C |
| The weather tinted rock and tower | D |
| Each drooping tree each fairy flower | D |
| So true so soft the mirror gave | E |
| As if there lay beneath the wave | E |
| Secure from trouble toil and care | F |
| A world than earthly world more fair | F |
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| But distant winds began to wake | G |
| And roused the Genius of the Lake | G |
| He heard the groaning of the oak | H |
| And donn'd at once his sable cloak | H |
| As warrior at the battle cry | I |
| Invests him with his panoply | J |
| Then as the whirlwind nearer press'd | K |
| He 'gan to shake his foamy crest | K |
| O'er furrow'd brow and blacken'd cheek | L |
| And bade his surge in thunder speak | L |
| In wild and broken eddies whirl'd | M |
| Flitted that fond ideal world | M |
| And to the shore in tumult tost | M |
| The realms of fairy bliss were lost | M |
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| Yet with a stern delight and strange | N |
| I saw the spirit stirring change | N |
| As warr'd the wind with wave and wood | M |
| Upon the ruin'd tower I stood | M |
| And felt my heart more strongly bound | M |
| Responsive to the lofty sound | M |
| While joying in the mighty roar | O |
| I mourn'd that tranquil scene no more | O |
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| So on the idle dreams of youth | P |
| Breaks the loud trumpet call of truth | P |
| Bids each fair vision pass away | Q |
| Like landscape on the lake that lay | Q |
| As fair as flitting and as frail | R |
| As that which fled the Autumn gale | R |
| For ever dead to fancy's eye | I |
| Be each gay form that glided by | I |
| While dreams of love and lady's charms | S |
| Give place to honour and to arms | S |
Walter Scott (sir)
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