Book Seventh [residence In London] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST UVWXHYZA2B2C2D2GE2F2 G2H2I2J2K2L2M2N2 O2P2Q2ER2S2T2U2V2 W2X2L2Y2Z2B2 A3B3C3D3T2D3D3R2E3D3 D3D3B2D3D3F3D3L2G3 D3D3H3F3I3J3K3D3D3L3 D3D3TM3N3D3D3D3HO3D3 P3Q3D3R3S3Q3T3D3U3J2 D3D3L2D3V3W3D3D3D3X3 Y3 HN2D3Z3EA4B4D3C4D3D4 E4F4G4H4I4ZL2QJ4M2D3 D3C3D3G2K4D3L4D3 L3M4S3N4O4N3SP4ZQ4D3 R4M4S4T4KB2D3Q HF2U4D3D3V4H2D3W4B4D 3R2X4Y4U4Z4KSIX changeful years have vanished since I first | A |
Poured out saluted by that quickening breeze | B |
Which met me issuing from the City's walls | C |
A glad preamble to this Verse I sang | D |
Aloud with fervour irresistible | E |
Of short lived transport like a torrent bursting | F |
From a black thunder cloud down Scafell's side | G |
To rush and disappear But soon broke forth | H |
So willed the Muse a less impetuous stream | I |
That flowed awhile with unabating strength | J |
Then stopped for years not audible again | K |
Before last primrose time Beloved Friend | L |
The assurance which then cheered some heavy thoughts | M |
On thy departure to a foreign land | N |
Has failed too slowly moves the promised work | O |
Through the whole summer have I been at rest | P |
Partly from voluntary holiday | Q |
And part through outward hindrance But I heard | R |
After the hour of sunset yester even | S |
Sitting within doors between light and dark | T |
A choir of redbreasts gathered somewhere near | U |
My threshold minstrels from the distant woods | V |
Sent in on Winter's service to announce | W |
With preparation artful and benign | X |
That the rough lord had left the surly North | H |
On his accustomed journey The delight | Y |
Due to this timely notice unawares | Z |
Smote me and listening I in whispers said | A2 |
'Ye heartsome Choristers ye and I will be | B2 |
Associates and unscared by blustering winds | C2 |
Will chant together ' Thereafter as the shades | D2 |
Of twilight deepened going forth I spied | G |
A glow worm underneath a dusky plume | E2 |
Or canopy of yet unwithered fern | F2 |
Clear shining like a hermit's taper seen | G2 |
Through a thick forest Silence touched me here | H2 |
No less than sound had done before the child | I2 |
Of Summer lingering shining by herself | J2 |
The voiceless worm on the unfrequented hills | K2 |
Seemed sent on the same errand with the choir | L2 |
Of Winter that had warbled at my door | M2 |
And the whole year breathed tenderness and love | N2 |
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The last night's genial feeling overflowed | O2 |
Upon this morning and my favourite grove | P2 |
Tossing in sunshine its dark boughs aloft | Q2 |
As if to make the strong wind visible | E |
Wakes in me agitations like its own | R2 |
A spirit friendly to the Poet's task | S2 |
Which we will now resume with lively hope | T2 |
Nor checked by aught of tamer argument | U2 |
That lies before us needful to be told | V2 |
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Returned from that excursion soon I bade | W2 |
Farewell for ever to the sheltered seats | X2 |
Of gowned students quitted hall and bower | L2 |
And every comfort of that privileged ground | Y2 |
Well pleased to pitch a vagrant tent among | Z2 |
The unfenced regions of society | B2 |
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Yet undetermined to what course of life | A3 |
I should adhere and seeming to possess | B3 |
A little space of intermediate time | C3 |
At full command to London first I turned | D3 |
In no disturbance of excessive hope | T2 |
By personal ambition unenslaved | D3 |
Frugal as there was need and though self willed | D3 |
From dangerous passions free Three years had flown | R2 |
Since I had felt in heart and soul the shock | E3 |
Of the huge town's first presence and had paced | D3 |
Her endless streets a transient visitant | D3 |
Now fixed amid that concourse of mankind | D3 |
Where Pleasure whirls about incessantly | B2 |
And life and labour seem but one I filled | D3 |
An idler's place an idler well content | D3 |
To have a house what matter for a home | F3 |
That owned him living cheerfully abroad | D3 |
With unchecked fancy ever on the stir | L2 |
And all my young affections out of doors | G3 |
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There was a time when whatsoe'er is feigned | D3 |
Of airy palaces and gardens built | D3 |
By Genii of romance or hath in grave | H3 |
Authentic history been set forth of Rome | F3 |
Alcairo Babylon or Persepolis | I3 |
Or given upon report by pilgrim friars | J3 |
Of golden cities ten months' journey deep | K3 |
Among Tartarian wilds fell short far short | D3 |
Of what my fond simplicity believed | D3 |
And thought of London held me by a chain | L3 |
Less strong of wonder and obscure delight | D3 |
Whether the bolt of childhood's Fancy shot | D3 |
For me beyond its ordinary mark | T |
'Twere vain to ask but in our flock of boys | M3 |
Was One a cripple from his birth whom chance | N3 |
Summoned from school to London fortunate | D3 |
And envied traveller When the Boy returned | D3 |
After short absence curiously I scanned | D3 |
His mien and person nor was free in sooth | H |
From disappointment not to find some change | O3 |
In look and air from that new region brought | D3 |
As if from Fairy land Much I questioned him | P3 |
And every word he uttered on my ears | Q3 |
Fell flatter than a caged parrot's note | D3 |
That answers unexpectedly awry | R3 |
And mocks the prompter's listening Marvellous things | S3 |
Had vanity quick Spirit that appears | Q3 |
Almost as deeply seated and as strong | T3 |
In a Child's heart as fear itself conceived | D3 |
For my enjoyment Would that I could now | U3 |
Recall what then I pictured to myself | J2 |
Of mitred Prelates Lords in ermine clad | D3 |
The King and the King's Palace and not last | D3 |
Nor least Heaven bless him the renowned Lord Mayor | L2 |
Dreams not unlike to those which once begat | D3 |
A change of purpose in young Whittington | V3 |
When he a friendless and a drooping boy | W3 |
Sate on a stone and heard the bells speak out | D3 |
Articulate music Above all one thought | D3 |
Baffled my understanding how men lived | D3 |
Even next door neighbours as we say yet still | X3 |
Strangers not knowing each the other's name | Y3 |
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Oh wondrous power of words by simple faith | H |
Licensed to take the meaning that we love | N2 |
Vauxhall and Ranelagh I then had heard | D3 |
Of your green groves and wilderness of lamps | Z3 |
Dimming the stars and fireworks magical | E |
And gorgeous ladies under splendid domes | A4 |
Floating in dance or warbling high in air | B4 |
The songs of spirits Nor had Fancy fed | D3 |
With less delight upon that other class | C4 |
Of marvels broad day wonders permanent | D3 |
The River proudly bridged the dizzy top | D4 |
And Whispering Gallery of St Paul's the tombs | E4 |
Of Westminster the Giants of Guildhall | F4 |
Bedlam and those carved maniacs at the gates | G4 |
Perpetually recumbent Statues man | H4 |
And the horse under him in gilded pomp | I4 |
Adorning flowery gardens 'mid vast squares | Z |
The Monument and that Chamber of the Tower | L2 |
Where England's sovereigns sit in long array | Q |
Their steeds bestriding every mimic shape | J4 |
Cased in the gleaming mail the monarch wore | M2 |
Whether for gorgeous tournament addressed | D3 |
Or life or death upon the battle field | D3 |
Those bold imaginations in due time | C3 |
Had vanished leaving others in their stead | D3 |
And now I looked upon the living scene | G2 |
Familiarly perused it oftentimes | K4 |
In spite of strongest disappointment pleased | D3 |
Through courteous self submission as a tax | L4 |
Paid to the object by prescriptive right | D3 |
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Rise up thou monstrous ant hill on the plain | L3 |
Of a too busy world Before me flow | M4 |
Thou endless stream of men and moving things | S3 |
Thy every day appearance as it strikes | N4 |
With wonder heightened or sublimed by awe | O4 |
On strangers of all ages the quick dance | N3 |
Of colours lights and forms the deafening din | S |
The comers and the goers face to face | P4 |
Face after face the string of dazzling wares | Z |
Shop after shop with symbols blazoned names | Q4 |
And all the tradesman's honours overhead | D3 |
Here fronts of houses like a title page | R4 |
With letters huge inscribed from top to toe | M4 |
Stationed above the door like guardian saints | S4 |
There allegoric shapes female or male | T4 |
Or physiognomies of real men | K |
Land warriors kings or admirals of the sea | B2 |
Boyle Shakspeare Newton or the attractive head | D3 |
Of some quack doctor famous in his day | Q |
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Meanwhile the roar continues till at length | H |
Escaped as from an enemy we turn | F2 |
Abruptly into some sequestered nook | U4 |
Still as a sheltered place when winds blow loud | D3 |
At leisure thence through tracts of thin resort | D3 |
And sights and sounds that come at intervals | V4 |
We take our way A raree show is here | H2 |
With children gathered round another street | D3 |
Presents a company of dancing dogs | W4 |
Or dromedary with an antic pair | B4 |
Of monkeys on his back a minstrel band | D3 |
Of Savoyards or single and alone | R2 |
An English ballad singer Private courts | X4 |
Gloomy as coffins and unsightly lanes | Y4 |
Thrilled by some female vendor's scream belike | U4 |
The very shrillest of all London cries | Z4 |
May then | K |
William Wordsworth
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