A Morning Exercise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEFEFGG HI JJ KIKILL MNMNLL OIOIPQ RDRDSS TFTFUU VFVFWX YZYZA2A2FANCY 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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