On Entering Switzerland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDCEFFEEELanguid and sad and slow from day to day | A |
I journey on yet pensive turn to view | B |
Where the rich landscape gleams with softer hue | B |
The streams and vales and hills that steal away | A |
So fares it with the children of the earth | C |
For when life's goodly prospect opens round | D |
Their spirits beat to tread that fairy ground | D |
Where every vale sounds to the pipe of mirth | C |
But them vain hope and easy youth beguiles | E |
And soon a longing look like me they cast | F |
Back on the pleasing prospect of the past | F |
Yet Fancy points where still far onward smiles | E |
Some sunny spot and her fair colouring blends | E |
Till cheerless on their path the night descends | E |
William Lisle Bowles
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