Calm Is The Fragrant Air Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDDEEFFGHBBIIF FJKKLLMMMNNN| Calm is the fragrant air and loth to lose | A |
| Day's grateful warmth tho' moist with falling dews | A |
| Look for the stars you'll say that there are none | B |
| Look up a second time and one by one | B |
| You mark them twinkling out with silvery light | C |
| And wonder how they could elude the sight | C |
| The birds of late so noisy in their bowers | D |
| Warbled a while with faint and fainter powers | D |
| But now are silent as the dim seen flowers | D |
| Nor does the village Church clock's iron tone | E |
| The time's and season's influence disown | E |
| Nine beats distinctly to each other bound | F |
| In drowsy sequence how unlike the sound | F |
| That in rough winter oft inflicts a fear | G |
| On fireside listeners doubting what they hear | H |
| The shepherd bent on rising with the sun | B |
| Had closed his door before the day was done | B |
| And now with thankful heart to bed doth creep | I |
| And joins his little children in their sleep | I |
| The bat lured forth where trees the lane o'ershade | F |
| Flits and reflits along the close arcade | F |
| The busy dor hawk chases the white moth | J |
| With burring note which Industry and Sloth | K |
| Might both be pleased with for it suits them both | K |
| A stream is heard I see it not but know | L |
| By its soft music whence the waters flow | L |
| Wheels and the tread of hoofs are heard no more | M |
| One boat there was but it will touch the shore | M |
| With the next dipping of its slackened oar | M |
| Faint sound that for the gayest of the gay | N |
| Might give to serious thought a moment's sway | N |
| As a last token of man's toilsome day | N |
William Wordsworth
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