Devotional Incitements Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AB CCAADEFFGGHH CCIIJJKKLLMMM NNOOPQRRSSTTDDUUVVWW AADDXXDDYYOOZA2DDB2B 2DDC2C2SSDDD2E2F2F2G 2G2H2

Not to the earth confinedA
Ascend to heavenB
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Where will they stop those breathing PowersC
The Spirits of the new born flowersC
They wander with the breeze they windA
Where'er the streams a passage findA
Up from their native ground they riseD
In mute aerial harmoniesE
From humble violet modest thymeF
Exhaled the essential odours climbF
As if no space below the skyG
Their subtle flight could satisfyG
Heaven will not tax our thoughts with prideH
If like ambition be 'their' guideH
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Roused by this kindliest of May showersC
The spirit quickener of the flowersC
That with moist virtue softly cleavesI
The buds and freshens the young leavesI
The birds pour forth their souls in notesJ
Of rapture from a thousand throatsJ
Here checked by too impetuous hasteK
While there the music runs to wasteK
With bounty more and more enlargedL
Till the whole air is overchargedL
Give ear O Man to their appealM
And thirst for no inferior zealM
Thou who canst 'think' as well as feelM
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Mount from the earth aspire aspireN
So pleads the town's cathedral quireN
In strains that from their solemn heightO
Sink to attain a loftier flightO
While incense from the altar breathesP
Rich fragrance in embodied wreathsQ
Or flung from swinging censer shroudsR
The taper lights and curls in cloudsR
Around angelic Forms the stillS
Creation of the painter's skillS
That on the service wait concealedT
One moment and the next revealedT
Cast off your bonds awake ariseD
And for no transient ecstasiesD
What else can mean the visual pleaU
Of still or moving imageryU
The iterated summons loudV
Not wasted on the attendant crowdV
Nor wholly lost upon the throngW
Hurrying the busy streets alongW
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Alas the sanctities combinedA
By art to unsensualise the mindA
Decay and languish or as creedsD
And humours change are spurned like weedsD
The priests are from their altars thrustX
Temples are leveled with the dustX
And solemn rites and awful formsD
Founder amid fanatic stormsD
Yet evermore through years renewedY
In undisturbed vicissitudeY
Of seasons balancing their flightO
On the swift wings of day and nightO
Kind Nature keeps a heavenly doorZ
Wide open for the scattered PoorA2
Where flower breathed incense to the skiesD
Is wafted in mute harmoniesD
And ground fresh cloven by the ploughB2
Is fragrant with a humbler vowB2
Where birds and brooks from leafy dellsD
Chime forth unwearied canticlesD
And vapours magnify and spreadC2
The glory of the sun's bright headC2
Still constant in her worship stillS
Conforming to the eternal WillS
Whether men sow or reap the fieldsD
Divine monition Nature yieldsD
That not by bread alone we liveD2
Or what a hand of flesh can giveE2
That every day should leave some partF2
Free for a sabbath of the heartF2
So shall the seventh be truly blestG2
From morn to eve with hallowed restG2
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William Wordsworth



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