A Narrow Girdle Of Rough Stones And Crags Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEAFGDHICJKAAALAF MNOPQJRSTUVWAAAXRYZA 2B2ADC2AD2ULAGE2AF2A KAG2H2C2I2AAJ2LGJK2A L2M2N2DGATAGAO2| l causeway interposed | A |
| Between the water and a winding slope | B |
| Of copse and thicket leaves the eastern shore | C |
| Of Grasmere safe in its own privacy | D |
| And there myself and two beloved Friends | E |
| One calm September morning ere the mist | A |
| Had altogether yielded to the sun | F |
| Sauntered on this retired and difficult way | G |
| Ill suits the road with one in haste but we | D |
| Played with our time and as we strolled along | H |
| It was our occupation to observe | I |
| Such objects as the waves had tossed ashore | C |
| Feather or leaf or weed or withered bough | J |
| Each on the other heaped along the line | K |
| Of the dry wreck And in our vacant mood | A |
| Not seldom did we stop to watch some tuft | A |
| Of dandelion seed or thistle's beard | A |
| That skimmed the surface of the dead calm lake | L |
| Suddenly halting now a lifeless stand | A |
| And starting off again with freak as sudden | F |
| In all its sportive wanderings all the while | M |
| Making report of an invisible breeze | N |
| That was its wings its chariot and its horse | O |
| Its playmate rather say its moving soul | P |
| And often trifling with a privilege | Q |
| Alike indulged to all we paused one now | J |
| And now the other to point out perchance | R |
| To pluck some flower or water weed too fair | S |
| Either to be divided from the place | T |
| On which it grew or to be left alone | U |
| To its own beauty Many such there are | V |
| Fair ferns and flowers and chiefly that tall fern | W |
| So stately of the queen Osmunda named | A |
| Plant lovelier in its own retired abode | A |
| On Grasmere's beach than Naiad by the side | A |
| Of Grecian brook or Lady of the Mere | X |
| Sole sitting by the shores of old romance | R |
| So fared we that bright morning from the fields | Y |
| Meanwhile a noise was heard the busy mirth | Z |
| Of reapers men and women boys and girls | A2 |
| Delighted much to listen to those sounds | B2 |
| And feeding thus our fancies we advanced | A |
| Along the indented shore when suddenly | D |
| Through a thin veil of glittering haze was seen | C2 |
| Before us on a point of jutting land | A |
| The tall and upright figure of a Man | D2 |
| Attired in peasant's garb who stood alone | U |
| Angling beside the margin of the lake | L |
| 'Improvident and reckless ' we exclaimed | A |
| 'The Man must be who thus can lose a day | G |
| Of the mid harvest when the labourer's hire | E2 |
| Is ample and some little might be stored | A |
| Wherewith to cheer him in the winter time ' | F2 |
| Thus talking of that Peasant we approached | A |
| Close to the spot where with his rod and line | K |
| He stood alone whereat he turned his head | A |
| To greet us and we saw a Mam worn down | G2 |
| By sickness gaunt and lean with sunken cheeks | H2 |
| And wasted limbs his legs so long and lean | C2 |
| That for my single self I looked at them | I2 |
| Forgetful of the body they sustained | A |
| Too weak to labour in the harvest field | A |
| The Man was using his best skill to gain | J2 |
| A pittance from the dead unfeeling lake | L |
| That knew not of his wants I will not say | G |
| What thoughts immediately were ours nor how | J |
| The happy idleness of that sweet morn | K2 |
| With all its lovely images was changed | A |
| To serious musing and to self reproach | L2 |
| Nor did we fail to see within ourselves | M2 |
| What need there is to be reserved in speech | N2 |
| And temper all our thoughts with charity | D |
| Therefore unwilling to forget that day | G |
| My Friend Myself and She who then received | A |
| The same admonishment have called the place | T |
| By a memorial name uncouth indeed | A |
| As e'er by mariner was given to bay | G |
| Or foreland on a new discovered coast | A |
| And POINT RASH JUDGMENT is the name it bears | O2 |
William Wordsworth
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