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 LSLTLULV| Genius 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 |
| - | |
| 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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