Composed By The Seashore Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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What mischief cleaves to unsubdued regretA
How fancy sickens by vague hopes besetA
How baffled projects on the spirit preyB
And fruitless wishes eat the heart awayB
The Sailor knows he best whose lot is castC
On the relentless sea that holds him fastC
On chance dependent and the fickle starD
Of power through long and melancholy warE
O sad it is in sight of foreign shoresF
Daily to think on old familiar doorsF
Hearths loved in childhood and ancestral floorsF
Or tossed about along a waste of foamG
To ruminate on that delightful homeG
Which with the dear Betrothed 'was' to comeH
Or came and was and is yet meets the eyeI
Never but in the world of memoryJ
Or in a dream recalled whose smoothest rangeK
Is crossed by knowledge or by dread of changeK
And if not so whose perfect joy makes sleepL
A thing too bright for breathing man to keepL
Hail to the virtues which that perilous lifeM
Extracts from Nature's elemental strifeM
And welcome glory won in battles foughtN
As bravely as the foe was keenly soughtN
But to each gallant Captain and his crewO
A less imperious sympathy is dueO
Such as my verse now yields while moonbeams playB
On the mute sea in this unruffled bayB
Such as will promptly flow from every breastP
Where good men disappointed in the questP
Of wealth and power and honours long for restP
Or having known the splendours of successQ
Sigh for the obscurities of happinessR
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William Wordsworth



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