Book Fourth [summer Vacation] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEFGHIJEKLBMNJOP QREESTUVWXYZYBA2B2C2 YD2EE2YEF2G2YYEH2I2Y J2YEQBEK2L2YC2M2N2ZV YYYO2YEYYYK2BK2YYYEE YYYYP2K2YBVK2 Q2YK2YK2EYYYBYK2YYYR 2YBK2K2S2VK2T2EYU2K2 BYEYYBYV2YE YW2YK2YX2YY2EEZ2YEEY EA3YVB3YYC3YVZBA3D3Y VK2YK2YBE3I2YYF3D2K2 BYEEK2YK2EYK2YYBRIGHT was the summer's noon when quickening steps | A |
Followed each other till a dreary moor | B |
Was crossed a bare ridge clomb upon whose top | C |
Standing alone as from a rampart's edge | D |
I overlooked the bed of Windermere | B |
Like a vast river stretching in the sun | E |
With exultation at my feet I saw | F |
Lake islands promontories gleaming bays | G |
A universe of Nature's fairest forms | H |
Proudly revealed with instantaneous burst | I |
Magnificent and beautiful and gay | J |
I bounded down the hill shouting amain | E |
For the old Ferryman to the shout the rocks | K |
Replied and when the Charon of the flood | L |
Had staid his oars and touched the jutting pier | B |
I did not step into the well known boat | M |
Without a cordial greeting Thence with speed | N |
Up the familiar hill I took my way | J |
Towards that sweet Valley where I had been reared | O |
'Twas but a short hour's walk ere veering round | P |
I saw the snow white church upon her hill | Q |
Sit like a throned Lady sending out | R |
A gracious look all over her domain | E |
Yon azure smoke betrays the lurking town | E |
With eager footsteps I advance and reach | S |
The cottage threshold where my journey closed | T |
Glad welcome had I with some tears perhaps | U |
From my old Dame so kind and motherly | V |
While she perused me with a parent's pride | W |
The thoughts of gratitude shall fall like dew | X |
Upon thy grave good creature While my heart | Y |
Can beat never will I forget thy name | Z |
Heaven's blessing be upon thee where thou liest | Y |
After thy innocent and busy stir | B |
In narrow cares thy little daily growth | A2 |
Of calm enjoyments after eighty years | B2 |
And more than eighty of untroubled life | C2 |
Childless yet by the strangers to thy blood | Y |
Honoured with little less than filial love | D2 |
What joy was mine to see thee once again | E |
Thee and thy dwelling and a crowd of things | E2 |
About its narrow precincts all beloved | Y |
And many of them seeming yet my own | E |
Why should I speak of what a thousand hearts | F2 |
Have felt and every man alive can guess | G2 |
The rooms the court the garden were not left | Y |
Long unsaluted nor the sunny seat | Y |
Round the stone table under the dark pine | E |
Friendly to studious or to festive hours | H2 |
Nor that unruly child of mountain birth | I2 |
The famous brook who soon as he was boxed | Y |
Within our garden found himself at once | J2 |
As if by trick insidious and unkind | Y |
Stripped of his voice and left to dimple down | E |
Without an effort and without a will | Q |
A channel paved by man's officious care | B |
I looked at him and smiled and smiled again | E |
And in the press of twenty thousand thoughts | K2 |
'Ha ' quoth I 'pretty prisoner are you there ' | L2 |
Well might sarcastic Fancy then have whispered | Y |
'An emblem here behold of thy own life | C2 |
In its late course of even days with all | M2 |
Their smooth enthralment ' but the heart was full | N2 |
Too full for that reproach My aged Dame | Z |
Walked proudly at my side she guided me | V |
I willing nay nay wishing to be led | Y |
The face of every neighbour whom I met | Y |
Was like a volume to me some were hailed | Y |
Upon the road some busy at their work | O2 |
Unceremonious greetings interchanged | Y |
With half the length of a long field between | E |
Among my schoolfellows I scattered round | Y |
Like recognitions but with some constraint | Y |
Attended doubtless with a little pride | Y |
But with more shame for my habiliments | K2 |
The transformation wrought by gay attire | B |
Not less delighted did I take my place | K2 |
At our domestic table and dear Friend | Y |
In this endeavour simply to relate | Y |
A Poet's history may I leave untold | Y |
The thankfulness with which I laid me down | E |
In my accustomed bed more welcome now | E |
Perhaps than if it had been more desired | Y |
Or been more often thought of with regret | Y |
That lowly bed whence I had heard the wind | Y |
Roar and the rain beat hard where I so oft | Y |
Had lain awake on summer nights to watch | P2 |
The moon in splendour couched among the leaves | K2 |
Of a tall ash that near our cottage stood | Y |
Had watched her with fixed eyes while to and fro | B |
In the dark summit of the waving tree | V |
She rocked with every impulse of the breeze | K2 |
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Among the favourites whom it pleased me well | Q2 |
To see again was one by ancient right | Y |
Our inmate a rough terrier of the hills | K2 |
By birth and call of nature pre ordained | Y |
To hunt the badger and unearth the fox | K2 |
Among the impervious crags but having been | E |
From youth our own adopted he had passed | Y |
Into a gentler service And when first | Y |
The boyish spirit flagged and day by day | Y |
Along my veins I kindled with the stir | B |
The fermentation and the vernal heat | Y |
Of poesy affecting private shades | K2 |
Like a sick Lover then this dog was used | Y |
To watch me an attendant and a friend | Y |
Obsequious to my steps early and late | Y |
Though often of such dilatory walk | R2 |
Tired and uneasy at the halts I made | Y |
A hundred times when roving high and low | B |
I have been harassed with the toil of verse | K2 |
Much pains and little progress and at once | K2 |
Some lovely Image in the song rose up | S2 |
Full formed like Venus rising from the sea | V |
Then have I darted forwards to let loose | K2 |
My hand upon his back with stormy joy | T2 |
Caressing him again and yet again | E |
And when at evening on the public way | Y |
I sauntered like a river murmuring | U2 |
And talking to itself when all things else | K2 |
Are still the creature trotted on before | B |
Such was his custom but whene'er he met | Y |
A passenger approaching he would turn | E |
To give me timely notice and straightway | Y |
Grateful for that admonishment I hushed | Y |
My voice composed my gait and with the air | B |
And mien of one whose thoughts are free advanced | Y |
To give and take a greeting that might save | V2 |
My name from piteous rumours such as wait | Y |
On men suspected to be crazed in brain | E |
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Those walks well worthy to be prized and loved | Y |
Regretted that word too was on my tongue | W2 |
But they were richly laden with all good | Y |
And cannot be remembered but with thanks | K2 |
And gratitude and perfect joy of heart | Y |
Those walks in all their freshness now came back | X2 |
Like a returning Spring When first I made | Y |
Once more the circuit of our little lake | Y2 |
If ever happiness hath lodged with man | E |
That day consummate happiness was mine | E |
Wide spreading steady calm contemplative | Z2 |
The sun was set or setting when I left | Y |
Our cottage door and evening soon brought on | E |
A sober hour not winning or serene | E |
For cold and raw the air was and untuned | Y |
But as a face we love is sweetest then | E |
When sorrow damps it or whatever look | A3 |
It chance to wear is sweetest if the heart | Y |
Have fulness in herself even so with me | V |
It fared that evening Gently did my soul | B3 |
Put off her veil and self transmuted stood | Y |
Naked as in the presence of her God | Y |
While on I walked a comfort seemed to touch | C3 |
A heart that had not been disconsolate | Y |
Strength came where weakness was not known to be | V |
At least not felt and restoration came | Z |
Like an intruder knocking at the door | B |
Of unacknowledged weariness I took | A3 |
The balance and with firm hand weighed myself | D3 |
Of that external scene which round me lay | Y |
Little in this abstraction did I see | V |
Remembered less but I had inward hopes | K2 |
And swellings of the spirit was rapt and soothed | Y |
Conversed with promises had glimmering views | K2 |
How life pervades the undecaying mind | Y |
How the immortal soul with God like power | B |
Informs creates and thaws the deepest sleep | E3 |
That time can lay upon her how on earth | I2 |
Man if he do but live within the light | Y |
Of high endeavours daily spreads abroad | Y |
His being armed with strength that cannot fail | F3 |
Nor was there want of milder thoughts of love | D2 |
Of innocence and holiday repose | K2 |
And more than pastoral quiet 'mid the stir | B |
Of boldest projects and a peaceful end | Y |
At last or glorious by endurance won | E |
Thus musing in a wood I sate me down | E |
Alone continuing there to muse the slopes | K2 |
And heights meanwhile were slowly overspread | Y |
With darkness and before a rippling breeze | K2 |
The long lake lengthened out its hoary line | E |
And in the sheltered coppice where I sate | Y |
Around me from among the hazel leaves | K2 |
Now here now there moved by the straggling wind | Y |
Came ever and anon a breath like sound | Y |
William Wordsworth
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