To James Bromley With 'wordsworth's Grave' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHIHI AJAJKAKA LMLMAGAG| Ere vandal lords with lust of gold accurst | A |
| Deface each hallowed hillside we revere | B |
| Ere cities in their million throated thirst | A |
| Menace each sacred mere | B |
| Let us give thanks because one nook hath been | C |
| Unflooded yet by desecration's wave | D |
| The little churchyard in the valley green | E |
| That holds our Wordsworth's grave | D |
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| 'Twas there I plucked these elegiac blooms | F |
| There where he rests 'mid comrades fit and few | G |
| And thence I bring this growth of classic tombs | F |
| An offering friend to you | G |
| You who have loved like me his simple themes | H |
| Loved his sincere large accent nobly plain | I |
| And loved the land whose mountains and whose streams | H |
| Are lovelier for his strain | I |
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| It may be that his manly chant beside | A |
| More dainty numbers seems a rustic tune | J |
| It may be thought has broadened since he died | A |
| Upon the century's noon | J |
| It may be that we can no longer share | K |
| The faith which from his fathers he received | A |
| It may be that our doom is to despair | K |
| Where he with joy believed | A |
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| Enough that there is none since risen who sings | L |
| A song so gotten of the immediate soul | M |
| So instant from the vital fount of things | L |
| Which is our source and goal | M |
| And though at touch of later hands there float | A |
| More artful tones than from his lyre he drew | G |
| Ages may pass ere trills another note | A |
| So sweet so great so true | G |
William Watson
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