Elegiac Stanzas Suggested By A Picture Of Peele Castle In A Storm, Painted By Sir George Beaumont Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH AIAI JKJK LMLM NONO PQPQ RSRT UPUP VWVX YZYZ A2B2A2B2 XC2WC2| I was thy neighbour once thou rugged Pile | A |
| Four summer weeks I dwelt in sight of thee | B |
| I saw thee every day and all the while | A |
| Thy Form was sleeping on a glassy sea | B |
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| So pure the sky so quiet was the air | C |
| So like so very like was day to day | D |
| Whene'er I looked thy Image still was there | C |
| It trembled but it never passed away | D |
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| How perfect was the calm it seemed no sleep | E |
| No mood which season takes away or brings | F |
| I could have fancied that the mighty Deep | E |
| Was even the gentlest of all gentle things | F |
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| Ah then if mine had been the Painter's hand | G |
| To express what then I saw and add the gleam | H |
| The light that never was on sea or land | G |
| The consecration and the Poet's dream | H |
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| I would have planted thee thou hoary Pile | A |
| Amid a world how different from this | I |
| Beside a sea that could not cease to smile | A |
| On tranquil land beneath a sky of bliss | I |
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| Thou shouldst have seemed a treasure house divine | J |
| Of peaceful years a chronicle of heaven | K |
| Of all the sunbeams that did ever shine | J |
| The very sweetest had to thee been given | K |
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| A Picture had it been of lasting ease | L |
| Elysian quiet without toil or strife | M |
| No motion but the moving tide a breeze | L |
| Or merely silent Nature's breathing life | M |
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| Such in the fond illusion of my heart | N |
| Such Picture would I at that time have made | O |
| And seen the soul of truth in every part | N |
| A steadfast peace that might not be betrayed | O |
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| So once it would have been 'tis so no more | P |
| I have submitted to a new control | Q |
| A power is gone which nothing can restore | P |
| A deep distress hath humanised my Soul | Q |
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| Not for a moment could I now behold | R |
| A smiling sea and be what I have been | S |
| The feeling of my loss will ne'er be old | R |
| This which I know I speak with mind serene | T |
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| Then Beaumont Friend who would have been the Friend | U |
| If he had lived of Him whom I deplore | P |
| This work of thine I blame not but commend | U |
| This sea in anger and that dismal shore | P |
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| O 'tis a passionate Work yet wise and well | V |
| Well chosen is the spirit that is here | W |
| That Hulk which labours in the deadly swell | V |
| This rueful sky this pageantry of fear | X |
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| And this huge Castle standing here sublime | Y |
| I love to see the look with which it braves | Z |
| Cased in the unfeeling armour of old time | Y |
| The lightning the fierce wind the trampling waves | Z |
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| Farewell farewell the heart that lives alone | A2 |
| Housed in a dream at distance from the Kind | B2 |
| Such happiness wherever it be known | A2 |
| Is to be pitied for 'tis surely blind | B2 |
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| But welcome fortitude and patient cheer | X |
| And frequent sights of what is to be borne | C2 |
| Such sights or worse as are before me here | W |
| Not without hope we suffer and we mourn | C2 |
William Wordsworth
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