Scenes Favourable To Meditation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BBBB BCBC DEDE BFBF BBBB GBGB HGHI BBBB BJBJ KLKL BBBB BHBH BBBB HMHM| Wilds horrid and dark with o'er shadowing trees | A |
| Rocks that ivy and briers infold | B |
| Scenes nature with dread and astonishment sees | A |
| But I with a pleasure untold | B |
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| Though awfully silent and shaggy and rude | B |
| I am charmed with the peace ye afford | B |
| Your shades are a temple where none will intrude | B |
| The abode of my lover and Lord | B |
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| I am sick of thy splendour O fountain of day | B |
| And here I am hid from its beams | C |
| Here safely contemplate a brighter display | B |
| Of the noblest and holiest of themes | C |
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| Ye forests that yield me my sweetest repose | D |
| Where stillness and solitude reign | E |
| To you I securely and boldly disclose | D |
| The dear anguish of which I complain | E |
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| Here sweetly forgetting and wholly forgot | B |
| By the world and its turbulent throng | F |
| The birds and the streams lend me many a note | B |
| That aids meditation and song | F |
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| Here wandering in scenes that are sacred to night | B |
| Love wears me and wastes me away | B |
| And often the sun has spent much of his light | B |
| Ere yet I perceive it is day | B |
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| While a mantle of darkness envelops the sphere | G |
| My sorrows are sadly rehearsed | B |
| To me the dark hours are all equally dear | G |
| And the last is as sweet as the first | B |
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| Here I and the beasts of the deserts agree | H |
| Mankind are the wolves that I fear | G |
| They grudge me my natural right to be free | H |
| But nobody questions it here | I |
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| Though little is found in this dreary abode | B |
| That appetite wishes to find | B |
| My spirit is soothed by the presence of God | B |
| And appetite wholly resigned | B |
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| Ye desolate scenes to your solitude led | B |
| My life I in praises employ | J |
| And scarce know the source of the tears that I shed | B |
| Proceed they from sorrow or joy | J |
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| There's nothing I seem to have skill to discern | K |
| I feel out my way in the dark | L |
| Love reigns in my bosom I constantly burn | K |
| Yet hardly distinguish the spark | L |
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| I live yet I seem to myself to be dead | B |
| Such a riddle is not to be found | B |
| I am nourished without knowing how I am fed | B |
| I have nothing and yet I abound | B |
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| Oh love who in darkness art pleased to abide | B |
| Though dimly yet surely I see | H |
| That these contrarieties only reside | B |
| In the soul that is chosen of thee | H |
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| Ah send me not back to the race of mankind | B |
| Perversely by folly beguiled | B |
| For where in the crowds I have left shall I find | B |
| The spirit and heart of a child | B |
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| Here let me though fixed in a desert be free | H |
| A little one whom they despise | M |
| Though lost to the world if in union with thee | H |
| Shall be holy and happy and wise | M |
William Cowper
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