Book First [introduction-childhood And School Time] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNHOPQGR STHUVWXYZA2 JB2C2D2E2EHF2G2H2I2J 2K2DL2 M2N2O2P2Q2R2S2T2U2V2 W2F2E X2Y2Z2A3B3C3TC2TD3KE 3F3XG3H3I3J3K3L3C2M3 Y2N3O3P3W2C2QPPX2Q3K 3JR3PS3PT3U3 PPV3W3X3Y3Z3VCPPA4J3 B4R2O3PZ2VB4B4Z2PPC4 PPPLB4P O3B4PB4B4D4E4PF4PY2B 4PN2 G4SPLR3PB4PB4B4H4B4B 4I4B4B4I2PQB4ZB4PJ4B 4K4PPB4EB4PG4VB4PPZ2 H4H4OH there is blessing in this gentle breeze | A |
A visitant that while it fans my cheek | B |
Doth seem half conscious of the joy it brings | C |
From the green fields and from yon azure sky | D |
Whate'er its mission the soft breeze can come | E |
To none more grateful than to me escaped | F |
From the vast city where I long had pined | G |
A discontented sojourner now free | H |
Free as a bird to settle where I will | I |
What dwelling shall receive me in what vale | J |
Shall be my harbour underneath what grove | K |
Shall I take up my home and what clear stream | L |
Shall with its murmur lull me into rest | M |
The earth is all before me With a heart | N |
Joyous nor scared at its own liberty | H |
I look about and should the chosen guide | O |
Be nothing better than a wandering cloud | P |
I cannot miss my way I breathe again | Q |
Trances of thought and mountings of the mind | G |
Come fast upon me it is shaken off | R |
That burthen of my own unnatural self | S |
The heavy weight of many a weary day | T |
Not mine and such as were not made for me | H |
Long months of peace if such bold word accord | U |
With any promises of human life | V |
Long months of ease and undisturbed delight | W |
Are mine in prospect whither shall I turn | X |
By road or pathway or through trackless field | Y |
Up hill or down or shall some floating thing | Z |
Upon the river point me out my course | A2 |
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Dear Liberty Yet what would it avail | J |
But for a gift that consecrates the joy | B2 |
For I methought while the sweet breath of heaven | C2 |
Was blowing on my body felt within | D2 |
A correspondent breeze that gently moved | E2 |
With quickening virtue but is now become | E |
A tempest a redundant energy | H |
Vexing its own creation Thanks to both | F2 |
And their congenial powers that while they join | G2 |
In breaking up a long continued frost | H2 |
Bring with them vernal promises the hope | I2 |
Of active days urged on by flying hours | J2 |
Days of sweet leisure taxed with patient thought | K2 |
Abstruse nor wanting punctual service high | D |
Matins and vespers of harmonious verse | L2 |
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Thus far O Friend did I not used to make | M2 |
A present joy the matter of a song | N2 |
Pour forth that day my soul in measured strains | O2 |
That would not be forgotten and are here | P2 |
Recorded to the open fields I told | Q2 |
A prophecy poetic numbers came | R2 |
Spontaneously to clothe in priestly robe | S2 |
A renovated spirit singled out | T2 |
Such hope was mine for holy services | U2 |
My own voice cheered me and far more the mind's | V2 |
Internal echo of the imperfect sound | W2 |
To both I listened drawing from them both | F2 |
A cheerful confidence in things to come | E |
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Content and not unwilling now to give | X2 |
A respite to this passion I paced on | Y2 |
With brisk and eager steps and came at length | Z2 |
To a green shady place where down I sate | A3 |
Beneath a tree slackening my thoughts by choice | B3 |
And settling into gentler happiness | C3 |
'Twas autumn and a clear and placid day | T |
With warmth as much as needed from a sun | C2 |
Two hours declined towards the west a day | T |
With silver clouds and sunshine on the grass | D3 |
And in the sheltered and the sheltering grove | K |
A perfect stillness Many were the thoughts | E3 |
Encouraged and dismissed till choice was made | F3 |
Of a known Vale whither my feet should turn | X |
Nor rest till they had reached the very door | G3 |
Of the one cottage which methought I saw | H3 |
No picture of mere memory ever looked | I3 |
So fair and while upon the fancied scene | J3 |
I gazed with growing love a higher power | K3 |
Than Fancy gave assurance of some work | L3 |
Of glory there forthwith to be begun | C2 |
Perhaps too there performed Thus long I mused | M3 |
Nor e'er lost sight of what I mused upon | Y2 |
Save when amid the stately grove of oaks | N3 |
Now here now there an acorn from its cup | O3 |
Dislodged through sere leaves rustled or at once | P3 |
To the bare earth dropped with a startling sound | W2 |
From that soft couch I rose not till the sun | C2 |
Had almost touched the horizon casting then | Q |
A backward glance upon the curling cloud | P |
Of city smoke by distance ruralised | P |
Keen as a Truant or a Fugitive | X2 |
But as a Pilgrim resolute I took | Q3 |
Even with the chance equipment of that hour | K3 |
The road that pointed toward the chosen Vale | J |
It was a splendid evening and my soul | R3 |
Once more made trial of her strength nor lacked | P |
Aeolian visitations but the harp | S3 |
Was soon defrauded and the banded host | P |
Of harmony dispersed in straggling sounds | T3 |
And lastly utter silence 'Be it so | U3 |
Why think of anything but present good ' | - |
So like a home bound labourer I pursued | P |
My way beneath the mellowing sun that shed | P |
Mild influence nor left in me one wish | V3 |
Again to bend the Sabbath of that time | W3 |
To a servile yoke What need of many words | X3 |
A pleasant loitering journey through three days | Y3 |
Continued brought me to my hermitage | Z3 |
I spare to tell of what ensued the life | V |
In common things the endless store of things | C |
Rare or at least so seeming every day | P |
Found all about me in one neighbourhood | P |
The self congratulation and from morn | A4 |
To night unbroken cheerfulness serene | J3 |
But speedily an earnest longing rose | B4 |
To brace myself to some determined aim | R2 |
Reading or thinking either to lay up | O3 |
New stores or rescue from decay the old | P |
By timely interference and therewith | Z2 |
Came hopes still higher that with outward life | V |
I might endue some airy phantasies | B4 |
That had been floating loose about for years | B4 |
And to such beings temperately deal forth | Z2 |
The many feelings that oppressed my heart | P |
That hope hath been discouraged welcome light | P |
Dawns from the east but dawns to disappear | C4 |
And mock me with a sky that ripens not | P |
Into a steady morning if my mind | P |
Remembering the bold promise of the past | P |
Would gladly grapple with some noble theme | L |
Vain is her wish where'er she turns she finds | B4 |
Impediments from day to day renewed | P |
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And now it would content me to yield up | O3 |
Those lofty hopes awhile for present gifts | B4 |
Of humbler industry But oh dear Friend | P |
The Poet gentle creature as he is | B4 |
Hath like the Lover his unruly times | B4 |
His fits when he is neither sick nor well | D4 |
Though no distress be near him but his own | E4 |
Unmanageable thoughts his mind best pleased | P |
While she as duteous as the mother dove | F4 |
Sits brooding lives not always to that end | P |
But like the innocent bird hath goadings on | Y2 |
That drive her as in trouble through the groves | B4 |
With me is now such passion to be blamed | P |
No otherwise than as it lasts too long | N2 |
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When as becomes a man who would prepare | G4 |
For such an arduous work I through myself | S |
Make rigorous inquisition the report | P |
Is often cheering for I neither seem | L |
To lack that first great gift the vital soul | R3 |
Nor general Truths which are themselves a sort | P |
Of Elements and Agents Under powers | B4 |
Subordinate helpers of the living mind | P |
Nor am I naked of external things | B4 |
Forms images nor numerous other aids | B4 |
Of less regard though won perhaps with toil | H4 |
And needful to build up a Poet's praise | B4 |
Time place and manners do I seek and these | B4 |
Are found in plenteous store but nowhere such | I4 |
As may be singled out with steady choice | B4 |
No little band of yet remembered names | B4 |
Whom I in perfect confidence might hope | I2 |
To summon back from lonesome banishment | P |
And make them dwellers in the hearts of men | Q |
Now living or to live in future years | B4 |
Sometimes the ambitious Power of choice mistaking | Z |
Proud spring tide swellings for a regular sea | B4 |
Will settle on some British theme some old | P |
Romantic tale by Milton left unsung | J4 |
More often turning to some gentle place | B4 |
Within the groves of Chivalry I pipe | K4 |
To shepherd swains or seated harp in hand | P |
Amid reposing knights by a river side | P |
Or fountain listen to the grave reports | B4 |
Of dire enchantments faced and overcome | E |
By the strong mind and tales of warlike feats | B4 |
Where spear encountered spear and sword with sword | P |
Fought as if conscious of the blazonry | G4 |
That the shield bore so glorious was the strife | V |
Whence inspiration for a song that winds | B4 |
Through ever changing scenes of votive quest | P |
Wrongs to redress harmonious tribute paid | P |
To patient courage and unblemished truth | Z2 |
To firm devotion zeal unquenchable | H4 |
And Christian meekness hallowing faithful lo | H4 |
William Wordsworth
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