Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part I. - Xxi - Seclusion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACCADEFFED| Lance shield and sword relinquished at his side | A |
| A bead roll in his hand a clasped book | B |
| Or staff more harmless than a shepherd's crook | B |
| The war worn Chieftain quits the world to hide | A |
| His thin autumnal locks where Monks abide | A |
| In cloistered privacy But not to dwell | C |
| In soft repose he comes within his cell | C |
| Round the decaying trunk of human pride | A |
| At morn and eve and midnight's silent hour | D |
| Do penitential cogitations cling | E |
| Like ivy round some ancient elm they twine | F |
| In grisly folds and strictures serpentine | F |
| Yet while they strangle a fair growth they bring | E |
| For recompense their own perennial bower | D |
William Wordsworth
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