A Jewish Family - In A Small Valley Opposite St. Goar, Upon The Rhine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGI JKJKLMLN OPQPDLDL LLLLLRLR LSLTLULVGenius of Raphael if thy wings | A |
Might bear thee to this glen | B |
With faithful memory left of things | A |
To pencil dear and pen | B |
Thou would'st forego the neighbouring Rhine | C |
And all his majesty | D |
A studious forehead to incline | C |
O'er this poor family | D |
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The Mother her thou must have seen | E |
In spirit ere she came | F |
To dwell these rifted rocks between | E |
Or found on earth a name | F |
An image too of that sweet Boy | G |
Thy inspirations give | H |
Of playfulness and love and joy | G |
Predestined here to live | I |
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Downcast or shooting glances far | J |
How beautiful his eyes | K |
That blend the nature of the star | J |
With that of summer skies | K |
I speak as if of sense beguiled | L |
Uncounted months are gone | M |
Yet am I with the Jewish Child | L |
That exquisite Saint John | N |
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I see the dark brown curls the brow | O |
The smooth transparent skin | P |
Refined as with intent to show | Q |
The holiness within | P |
The grace of parting Infancy | D |
By blushes yet untamed | L |
Age faithful to the mother's knee | D |
Nor of her arms ashamed | L |
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Two lovely Sisters still and sweet | L |
As flowers stand side by side | L |
Their soul subduing looks might cheat | L |
The Christian of his pride | L |
Such beauty hath the Eternal poured | L |
Upon them not forlorn | R |
Though of a lineage once abhorred | L |
Nor yet redeemed from scorn | R |
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Mysterious safeguard that in spite | L |
Of poverty and wrong | S |
Doth here preserve a living light | L |
From Hebrew fountains sprung | T |
That gives this ragged group to cast | L |
Around the dell a gleam | U |
Of Palestine of glory past | L |
And proud Jerusalem | V |
William Wordsworth
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