Companion To The Foregoing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDBB EEEFGHIJJBBBBKKLL| Never enlivened with the liveliest ray | A |
| That fosters growth or checks or cheers decay | A |
| Nor by the heaviest rain drops more deprest | B |
| This Flower that first appeared as summer's guest | B |
| Preserves her beauty 'mid autumnal leaves | C |
| And to her mournful habits fondly cleaves | C |
| When files of stateliest plants have ceased to bloom | D |
| One after one submitting to their doom | D |
| When her coevals each and all are fled | B |
| What keeps her thus reclined upon her lonesome bed | B |
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| The old mythologists more impressed than we | E |
| Of this late day by character in tree | E |
| Or herb that claimed peculiar sympathy | E |
| Or by the silent lapse of fountain clear | F |
| Or with the language of the viewless air | G |
| By bird or beast made vocal sought a cause | H |
| To solve the mystery not in Nature's laws | I |
| But in Man's fortunes Hence a thousand tales | J |
| Sung to the plaintive lyre in Grecian vales | J |
| Nor doubt that something of their spirit swayed | B |
| The fancy stricken Youth or heart sick Maid | B |
| Who while each stood companionless and eyed | B |
| This undeparting Flower in crimson dyed | B |
| Thought of a wound which death is slow to cure | K |
| A fate that has endured and will endure | K |
| And patience coveting yet passion feeding | L |
| Called the dejected Lingerer 'Loves lies bleeding' | L |
William Wordsworth
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