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 yearA
The singer who lies songless hereB
Was wont to woo a less austereA
Less deep reposeC
Where Rotha to WinandermereA
Unresting flowsC
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Flows through a land where torrents callD
To far off torrents as they fallD
And mountains in their cloudy pallE
Keep ghostly stateF
And Nature makes majesticalE
Man's lowliest fateF
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There 'mid the August glow still cameG
He of the twice illustrious nameG
The loud impertinence of fameG
Not loth to fleeE
Not loth with brooks and fells to claimG
FraternityE
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Linked with his happy youthful lotH
Is Loughrigg then at last forgotH
Nor silent peak nor dalesman's cotH
Looks on his graveI
Lulled by the Thames he sleeps and notH
By Rotha's waveI
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'Tis fittest thus for though with skillE
He sang of beck and tarn and ghyllE
The deep authentic mountain thrillE
Ne'er shook his pageJ
Somewhat of worldling mingled stillE
With bard and sageJ
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And 'twere less meet for him to lieE
Guarded by summits lone and highE
That traffic with the eternal skyE
And hear unawedH
The everlasting fingers plyE
The loom of GodH
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Than in this hamlet of the plainK
A less sublime repose to gainK
Where Nature genial and urbaneK
To man defersL
Yielding to us the right to reignK
Which yet is hersL
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And nigh to where his bones abideH
The Thames with its unruffled tideH
Seems like his genius typifiedH
Its strength its graceM
Its lucid gleam its sober prideH
Its tranquil paceM
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But ah not his the eventual fateH
Which doth the journeying wave awaitH
Doomed to resign its limpid stateH
And quickly growA
Turbid as passion dark as hateH
And wide as woeA
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Rather it may be over muchN
He shunned the common stain and smutchN
From soilure of ignoble touchN
Too grandly freeE
Too loftily secure in suchN
Cold purityE
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But he preserved from chance controlE
The fortress of his 'stablisht soulE
In all things sought to see the WholeE
Brooked no disguiseO
And set his heart upon the goalE
Not on the prizeO
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With those Elect he shall surviveP
Who seem not to compete or striveP
Yet with the foremost still arriveP
Prevailing stillE
Spirits with whom the stars conniveP
To work their willE
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And ye the baffled many whoQ
Dejected from afar off viewQ
The easily victorious fewQ
Of calm renownR
Have ye not your sad glory tooQ
And mournful crownR
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Great is the facile conquerorA
Yet haply he who wounded soreA
Breathless unhorsed all covered o'erA
With blood and sweatH
Sinks foiled but fighting evermoreA
Is greater yetH

William Watson



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