A Character Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ| I marvel how Nature could ever find space | A |
| For so many strange contrasts in one human face | A |
| There's thought and no thought and there's paleness and bloom | B |
| And bustle and sluggishness pleasure and gloom | B |
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| There's weakness and strength both redundant and vain | C |
| Such strength as if ever affliction and pain | C |
| Could pierce through a temper that's soft to disease | D |
| Would be rational peace a philosopher's ease | D |
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| There's indifference alike when he fails or succeeds | E |
| And attention full ten times as much as there needs | E |
| Pride where there's no envy there's so much of joy | F |
| And mildness and spirit both forward and coy | F |
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| There's freedom and sometimes a diffident stare | G |
| Of shame scarcely seeming to know that she's there | G |
| There's virtue the title it surely may claim | H |
| Yet wants heaven knows what to be worthy the name | H |
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| This picture from nature may seem to depart | I |
| Yet the Man would at once run away with your heart | I |
| And I for five centuries right gladly would be | J |
| Such an odd such a kind happy creature as he | J |
William Wordsworth
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