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 XC2WC2I 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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