Composed By The Seashore Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFFGGHIJKKLL MMNNOOBBPPPQRL| What mischief cleaves to unsubdued regret | A |
| How fancy sickens by vague hopes beset | A |
| How baffled projects on the spirit prey | B |
| And fruitless wishes eat the heart away | B |
| The Sailor knows he best whose lot is cast | C |
| On the relentless sea that holds him fast | C |
| On chance dependent and the fickle star | D |
| Of power through long and melancholy war | E |
| O sad it is in sight of foreign shores | F |
| Daily to think on old familiar doors | F |
| Hearths loved in childhood and ancestral floors | F |
| Or tossed about along a waste of foam | G |
| To ruminate on that delightful home | G |
| Which with the dear Betrothed 'was' to come | H |
| Or came and was and is yet meets the eye | I |
| Never but in the world of memory | J |
| Or in a dream recalled whose smoothest range | K |
| Is crossed by knowledge or by dread of change | K |
| And if not so whose perfect joy makes sleep | L |
| A thing too bright for breathing man to keep | L |
| Hail to the virtues which that perilous life | M |
| Extracts from Nature's elemental strife | M |
| And welcome glory won in battles fought | N |
| As bravely as the foe was keenly sought | N |
| But to each gallant Captain and his crew | O |
| A less imperious sympathy is due | O |
| Such as my verse now yields while moonbeams play | B |
| On the mute sea in this unruffled bay | B |
| Such as will promptly flow from every breast | P |
| Where good men disappointed in the quest | P |
| Of wealth and power and honours long for rest | P |
| Or having known the splendours of success | Q |
| Sigh for the obscurities of happiness | R |
| nbsp | L |
William Wordsworth
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