Devotional Incitements Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCAADEFFGGHH CCIIJJKKLLMMM NNOOPQRRSSTTDDUUVVWW AADDXXDDYYOOZA2DDB2B 2DDC2C2SSDDD2E2F2F2G 2G2H2Not to the earth confined | A |
Ascend to heaven | B |
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Where will they stop those breathing Powers | C |
The Spirits of the new born flowers | C |
They wander with the breeze they wind | A |
Where'er the streams a passage find | A |
Up from their native ground they rise | D |
In mute aerial harmonies | E |
From humble violet modest thyme | F |
Exhaled the essential odours climb | F |
As if no space below the sky | G |
Their subtle flight could satisfy | G |
Heaven will not tax our thoughts with pride | H |
If like ambition be 'their' guide | H |
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Roused by this kindliest of May showers | C |
The spirit quickener of the flowers | C |
That with moist virtue softly cleaves | I |
The buds and freshens the young leaves | I |
The birds pour forth their souls in notes | J |
Of rapture from a thousand throats | J |
Here checked by too impetuous haste | K |
While there the music runs to waste | K |
With bounty more and more enlarged | L |
Till the whole air is overcharged | L |
Give ear O Man to their appeal | M |
And thirst for no inferior zeal | M |
Thou who canst 'think' as well as feel | M |
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Mount from the earth aspire aspire | N |
So pleads the town's cathedral quire | N |
In strains that from their solemn height | O |
Sink to attain a loftier flight | O |
While incense from the altar breathes | P |
Rich fragrance in embodied wreaths | Q |
Or flung from swinging censer shrouds | R |
The taper lights and curls in clouds | R |
Around angelic Forms the still | S |
Creation of the painter's skill | S |
That on the service wait concealed | T |
One moment and the next revealed | T |
Cast off your bonds awake arise | D |
And for no transient ecstasies | D |
What else can mean the visual plea | U |
Of still or moving imagery | U |
The iterated summons loud | V |
Not wasted on the attendant crowd | V |
Nor wholly lost upon the throng | W |
Hurrying the busy streets along | W |
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Alas the sanctities combined | A |
By art to unsensualise the mind | A |
Decay and languish or as creeds | D |
And humours change are spurned like weeds | D |
The priests are from their altars thrust | X |
Temples are leveled with the dust | X |
And solemn rites and awful forms | D |
Founder amid fanatic storms | D |
Yet evermore through years renewed | Y |
In undisturbed vicissitude | Y |
Of seasons balancing their flight | O |
On the swift wings of day and night | O |
Kind Nature keeps a heavenly door | Z |
Wide open for the scattered Poor | A2 |
Where flower breathed incense to the skies | D |
Is wafted in mute harmonies | D |
And ground fresh cloven by the plough | B2 |
Is fragrant with a humbler vow | B2 |
Where birds and brooks from leafy dells | D |
Chime forth unwearied canticles | D |
And vapours magnify and spread | C2 |
The glory of the sun's bright head | C2 |
Still constant in her worship still | S |
Conforming to the eternal Will | S |
Whether men sow or reap the fields | D |
Divine monition Nature yields | D |
That not by bread alone we live | D2 |
Or what a hand of flesh can give | E2 |
That every day should leave some part | F2 |
Free for a sabbath of the heart | F2 |
So shall the seventh be truly blest | G2 |
From morn to eve with hallowed rest | G2 |
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William Wordsworth
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