On Leaving A Place Of Residence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDEEDBBFGGFGGHH IIJEJEAA| If I could bid thee pleasant shade farewell | A |
| Without a sigh amidst whose circling bowers | B |
| My stripling prime was passed and happiest hours | B |
| Dead were I to the sympathies that swell | A |
| The human breast These woods that whispering wave | C |
| My father reared and nursed now to the grave | C |
| Gone down he loved their peaceful shades and said | D |
| Perhaps as here he mused Live laurels green | E |
| Ye pines that shade the solitary scene | E |
| Live blooming and rejoice When I am dead | D |
| My son shall guard you and amid your bowers | B |
| Like me find shelter from life's beating showers | B |
| These thoughts my father every spot endear | F |
| And whilst I think with self accusing pain | G |
| A stranger shall possess the loved domain | G |
| In each low wind I seem thy voice to hear | F |
| But these are shadows of the shaping brain | G |
| That now my heart alas can ill sustain | G |
| We must forget the world is wide the abode | H |
| Of peace may still be found nor hard the road | H |
| It boots not so to every chance resigned | I |
| Where'er the spot we bear the unaltered mind | I |
| Yet oh poor cottage and thou sylvan shade | J |
| Remember ere I left your coverts green | E |
| Where in my youth I mused in childhood played | J |
| I gazed I paused I dropped a tear unseen | E |
| That bitter from the font of memory fell | A |
| Thinking on him who reared you now farewell | A |
William Lisle Bowles
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