In Laleham Churchyard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACAC DDEFEF GGGEGE HHHIHI EEEJEJ EEEHEH KKKLKL HHHMHM HHHAHA NNNENE EEEOEO PPPEPE QQQRQR AAAHAH'Twas at this season year by year | A |
The singer who lies songless here | B |
Was wont to woo a less austere | A |
Less deep repose | C |
Where Rotha to Winandermere | A |
Unresting flows | C |
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Flows through a land where torrents call | D |
To far off torrents as they fall | D |
And mountains in their cloudy pall | E |
Keep ghostly state | F |
And Nature makes majestical | E |
Man's lowliest fate | F |
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There 'mid the August glow still came | G |
He of the twice illustrious name | G |
The loud impertinence of fame | G |
Not loth to flee | E |
Not loth with brooks and fells to claim | G |
Fraternity | E |
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Linked with his happy youthful lot | H |
Is Loughrigg then at last forgot | H |
Nor silent peak nor dalesman's cot | H |
Looks on his grave | I |
Lulled by the Thames he sleeps and not | H |
By Rotha's wave | I |
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'Tis fittest thus for though with skill | E |
He sang of beck and tarn and ghyll | E |
The deep authentic mountain thrill | E |
Ne'er shook his page | J |
Somewhat of worldling mingled still | E |
With bard and sage | J |
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And 'twere less meet for him to lie | E |
Guarded by summits lone and high | E |
That traffic with the eternal sky | E |
And hear unawed | H |
The everlasting fingers ply | E |
The loom of God | H |
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Than in this hamlet of the plain | K |
A less sublime repose to gain | K |
Where Nature genial and urbane | K |
To man defers | L |
Yielding to us the right to reign | K |
Which yet is hers | L |
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And nigh to where his bones abide | H |
The Thames with its unruffled tide | H |
Seems like his genius typified | H |
Its strength its grace | M |
Its lucid gleam its sober pride | H |
Its tranquil pace | M |
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But ah not his the eventual fate | H |
Which doth the journeying wave await | H |
Doomed to resign its limpid state | H |
And quickly grow | A |
Turbid as passion dark as hate | H |
And wide as woe | A |
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Rather it may be over much | N |
He shunned the common stain and smutch | N |
From soilure of ignoble touch | N |
Too grandly free | E |
Too loftily secure in such | N |
Cold purity | E |
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But he preserved from chance control | E |
The fortress of his 'stablisht soul | E |
In all things sought to see the Whole | E |
Brooked no disguise | O |
And set his heart upon the goal | E |
Not on the prize | O |
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With those Elect he shall survive | P |
Who seem not to compete or strive | P |
Yet with the foremost still arrive | P |
Prevailing still | E |
Spirits with whom the stars connive | P |
To work their will | E |
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And ye the baffled many who | Q |
Dejected from afar off view | Q |
The easily victorious few | Q |
Of calm renown | R |
Have ye not your sad glory too | Q |
And mournful crown | R |
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Great is the facile conqueror | A |
Yet haply he who wounded sore | A |
Breathless unhorsed all covered o'er | A |
With blood and sweat | H |
Sinks foiled but fighting evermore | A |
Is greater yet | H |
William Watson
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