Decay Of Piety Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAABBADEDEFF| Oft have I seen ere Time had ploughed my cheek | A |
| Matrons and Sires who punctual to the call | B |
| Of their loved Church on fast or festival | C |
| Through the long year the house of Prayer would seek | A |
| By Christmas snows by visitation bleak | A |
| Of Easter winds unscared from hut or hall | B |
| They came to lowly bench or sculptured stall | B |
| But with one fervour of devotion meek | A |
| I see the places where they once were known | D |
| And ask surrounded even by kneeling crowds | E |
| Is ancient Piety for ever flown | D |
| Alas even then they seemed like fleecy clouds | E |
| That struggling through the western sky have won | F |
| Their pensive light from a departed sun | F |
William Wordsworth
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