Character Of The Happy Warrior Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBCCDDEEFFFGHIIJK IILLIIIIMMNNIIOOPGQQ JJRRSSIITUVWXXYYIIII AAZA2B2B2AC2C2D2D2E2 E2F2F2F2G2G2QQIIIAAWho is the happy Warrior Who is he | A |
That every man in arms should wish to be | A |
It is the generous Spirit who when brought | B |
Among the tasks of real life hath wrought | B |
Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought | B |
Whose high endeavours are an inward light | C |
That makes the path before him always bright | C |
Who with a natural instinct to discern | D |
What knowledge can perform is diligent to learn | D |
Abides by this resolve and stops not there | E |
But makes his moral being his prime care | E |
Who doomed to go in company with Pain | F |
And Fear and Bloodshed miserable train | F |
Turns his necessity to glorious gain | F |
In face of these doth exercise a power | G |
Which is our human nature's highest dower | H |
Controls them and subdues transmutes bereaves | I |
Of their bad influence and their good receives | I |
By objects which might force the soul to abate | J |
Her feeling rendered more compassionate | K |
Is placable because occasions rise | I |
So often that demand such sacrifice | I |
More skilful in self knowledge even more pure | L |
As tempted more more able to endure | L |
As more exposed to suffering and distress | I |
Thence also more alive to tenderness | I |
'Tis he whose law is reason who depends | I |
Upon that law as on the best of friends | I |
Whence in a state where men are tempted still | M |
To evil for a guard against worse ill | M |
And what in quality or act is best | N |
Doth seldom on a right foundation rest | N |
He labours good on good to fix and owes | I |
To virtue every triumph that he knows | I |
Who if he rise to station of command | O |
Rises by open means and there will stand | O |
On honourable terms or else retire | P |
And in himself possess his own desire | G |
Who comprehends his trust and to the same | Q |
Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim | Q |
And therefore does not stoop nor lie in wait | J |
For wealth or honours or for worldly state | J |
Whom they must follow on whose head must fall | R |
Like showers of manna if they come at all | R |
Whose powers shed round him in the common strife | S |
Or mild concerns of ordinary life | S |
A constant influence a peculiar grace | I |
But who if he be called upon to face | I |
Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined | T |
Great issues good or bad for human kind | U |
Is happy as a Lover and attired | V |
With sudden brightness like a Man inspired | W |
And through the heat of conflict keeps the law | X |
In calmness made and sees what he foresaw | X |
Or if an unexpected call succeed | Y |
Come when it will is equal to the need | Y |
He who though thus endued as with a sense | I |
And faculty for storm and turbulence | I |
Is yet a Soul whose master bias leans | I |
To homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes | I |
Sweet images which wheresoe'er he be | A |
Are at his heart and such fidelity | A |
It is his darling passion to approve | Z |
More brave for this that he hath much to love | A2 |
'Tis finally the Man who lifted high | B2 |
Conspicuous object in a Nation's eye | B2 |
Or left unthought of in obscurity | A |
Who with a toward or untoward lot | C2 |
Prosperous or adverse to his wish or not | C2 |
Plays in the many games of life that one | D2 |
Where what he most doth value must be won | D2 |
Whom neither shape or danger can dismay | E2 |
Nor thought of tender happiness betray | E2 |
Who not content that former worth stand fast | F2 |
Looks forward persevering to the last | F2 |
From well to better daily self surpast | F2 |
Who whether praise of him must walk the earth | G2 |
For ever and to noble deeds give birth | G2 |
Or he must fall to sleep without his fame | Q |
And leave a dead unprofitable name | Q |
Finds comfort in himself and in his cause | I |
And while the mortal mist is gathering draws | I |
His breath in confidence of Heaven's applause | I |
This is the happy Warrior this is he | A |
That every man in arms should wish to be | A |
William Wordsworth
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