A Morning Exercise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEFEFGG HI JJ KIKILL MNMNLL OIOIPQ RDRDSS TFTFUU VFVFWX YZYZA2A2| FANCY who leads the pastimes of the glad | A |
| Full oft is pleased a wayward dart to throw | B |
| Sending sad shadows after things not sad | A |
| Peopling the harmless fields with signs of woe | B |
| Beneath her sway a simple forest cry | C |
| Becomes an echo of man's misery | D |
| Blithe ravens croak of death and when the owl | E |
| Tries his two voices for a favourite strain | F |
| 'Tu whit Tu whoo ' the unsuspecting fowl | E |
| Forebodes mishap or seems but to complain | F |
| Fancy intent to harass and annoy | G |
| Can thus pervert the evidence of joy | G |
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| Through border wilds where naked Indians stray | H |
| Myriads of notes attest her subtle skill | I |
| A feathered task master cries 'WORK AWAY ' | - |
| And in thy iteration 'WHIP POOR WILL ' | - |
| Is heard the spirit of a toil worn slave | J |
| Lashed out of life not quiet in the grave | J |
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| What wonder at her bidding ancient lays | K |
| Steeped in dire grief the voice of Philomel | I |
| And that fleet messenger of summer days | K |
| The Swallow twittered subject to like spell | I |
| But ne'er could Fancy bend the buoyant Lark | L |
| To melancholy service hark O hark | L |
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| The daisy sleeps upon the dewy lawn | M |
| Not lifting yet the head that evening bowed | N |
| But 'He' is risen a later star of dawn | M |
| Glittering and twinkling near yon rosy cloud | N |
| Bright gem instinct with music vocal spark | L |
| The happiest bird that sprang out of the Ark | L |
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| Hail blest above all kinds Supremely skilled | O |
| Restless with fixed to balance high with low | I |
| Thou leav'st the halcyon free her hopes to build | O |
| On such forbearance as the deep may show | I |
| Perpetual flight unchecked by earthly ties | P |
| Leav'st to the wandering bird of paradise | Q |
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| Faithful though swift as lightning the meek dove | R |
| Yet more hath Nature reconciled in thee | D |
| So constant with thy downward eye of love | R |
| Yet in aerial singleness so free | D |
| So humble yet so ready to rejoice | S |
| In power of wing and never wearied voice | S |
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| To the last point of vision and beyond | T |
| Mount daring warbler that love prompted strain | F |
| 'Twixt thee and thine a never failing bond | T |
| Thrills not the less the bosom of the plain | F |
| Yet might'st thou seem proud privilege to sing | U |
| All independent of the leafy spring | U |
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| How would it please old Ocean to partake | V |
| With sailors longing for a breeze in vain | F |
| The harmony thy notes most gladly make | V |
| Where earth resembles most his own domain | F |
| Urania's self might welcome with pleased ear | W |
| These matins mounting towards her native sphere | X |
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| Chanter by heaven attracted whom no bars | Y |
| To day light known deter from that pursuit | Z |
| 'Tis well that some sage instinct when the stars | Y |
| Come forth at evening keeps Thee still and mute | Z |
| For not an eyelid could to sleep incline | A2 |
| Wert thou among them singing as they shine | A2 |
William Wordsworth
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