Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part Iii. - Xxxv - Old Abbeys Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACDAEFGEGH| Monastic Domes following my downward way | A |
| Untouched by due regret I marked your fall | B |
| Now ruin beauty ancient stillness all | B |
| Dispose to judgments temperate as we lay | A |
| On our past selves in life's declining day | A |
| For as by discipline of Time made wise | C |
| We learn to tolerate the infirmities | D |
| And faults of others gently as he may | A |
| So with our own the mild Instructor deals | E |
| Teaching us to forget them or forgive | F |
| Perversely curious then for hidden ill | G |
| Why should we break Time's charitable seals | E |
| Once ye were holy ye are holy still | G |
| Your spirit freely let me drink and live | H |
William Wordsworth
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