Composed By The Seashore Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFFGGHIJKKLL MMNNOOBBPPPQRLWhat 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 |
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William Wordsworth
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