Cadland, Southampton River Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNBOPQRS TAUVWXYZAA2B2SC2D2E2 F2G2H2I2J2K2L2M2N2O2 P2JO2| If ever sea maid from her coral cave | A |
| Beneath the hum of the great surge has loved | B |
| To pass delighted from her green abode | C |
| And seated on a summer bank to sing | D |
| No earthly music in a spot like this | E |
| The bard might feign he heard her as she dried | F |
| Her golden hair yet dripping from the main | G |
| In the slant sunbeam | H |
| So the pensive bard | I |
| Might image warmed by this enchanting scene | J |
| The ideal form but though such things are not | K |
| He who has ever felt a thought refined | L |
| He who has wandered on the sea of life | M |
| Forming delightful visions of a home | N |
| Of beauty and repose he who has loved | B |
| With filial warmth his country will not pass | O |
| Without a look of more than tenderness | P |
| On all the scene from where the pensile birch | Q |
| Bends on the bank amid the clustered group | R |
| Of the dark hollies to the woody shore | S |
| That steals diminished to the distant spires | T |
| Of Hampton crowning the long lucid wave | A |
| White in the sun beneath the forest shade | U |
| Full shines the frequent sail like Vanity | V |
| As she goes onward in her glittering trim | W |
| Amid the glances of life's transient morn | X |
| Calling on all to view her | Y |
| Vectis there | Z |
| That slopes its greensward to the lambent wave | A |
| And shows through softest haze its woods and domes | A2 |
| With gray St Catherine's creeping to the sky | B2 |
| Seems like a modest maid who charms the more | S |
| Concealing half her beauties | C2 |
| To the East | D2 |
| Proud yet complacent on its subject realm | E2 |
| With masts innumerable thronged and hulls | F2 |
| Seen indistinct but formidable mark | G2 |
| Albion's vast fleet that like the impatient storm | H2 |
| Waits but the word to thunder and flash death | I2 |
| On him who dares approach to violate | J2 |
| The shores and living scenes that smile secure | K2 |
| Beneath its dragon watch | L2 |
| Long may they smile | M2 |
| And long majestic Albion while the sound | N2 |
| From East to West from Albis to the Po | O2 |
| Of dark contention hurtles may'st thou rest | P2 |
| As calm and beautiful this sylvan scene | J |
| Looks on the refluent wave that steals below | O2 |
William Lisle Bowles
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
About Cadland, Southampton River
Cadland, Southampton River is a poem by William Lisle Bowles. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.
Write your comment about Cadland, Southampton River poem by William Lisle Bowles
Best Poems of William Lisle Bowles