Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part Iii. - Xxxii - Rural Ceremony Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACCDEDE| Closing the sacred Book which long has fed | A |
| Our meditations give we to a day | B |
| Of annual joy one tributary lay | B |
| This day when forth by rustic music led | A |
| The village Children while the sky is red | A |
| With evening lights advance in long array | B |
| Through the still churchyard each with garland gay | B |
| That carried sceptre like o'ertops the head | A |
| Of the proud Bearer To the wide church door | C |
| Charged with these offerings which their fathers bore | C |
| For decoration in the Papal time | D |
| The innocent procession softly moves | E |
| The spirit of Laud is pleased in heaven's pure clime | D |
| And Hooker's voice the spectacle approves | E |
William Wordsworth
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Rosalind: Interesting in that it refers to the Grasmere rushbearing ceremony, but not one of Wordsworth's greatest sonnets!
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