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 PileA
Four summer weeks I dwelt in sight of theeB
I saw thee every day and all the whileA
Thy Form was sleeping on a glassy seaB
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So pure the sky so quiet was the airC
So like so very like was day to dayD
Whene'er I looked thy Image still was thereC
It trembled but it never passed awayD
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How perfect was the calm it seemed no sleepE
No mood which season takes away or bringsF
I could have fancied that the mighty DeepE
Was even the gentlest of all gentle thingsF
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Ah then if mine had been the Painter's handG
To express what then I saw and add the gleamH
The light that never was on sea or landG
The consecration and the Poet's dreamH
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I would have planted thee thou hoary PileA
Amid a world how different from thisI
Beside a sea that could not cease to smileA
On tranquil land beneath a sky of blissI
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Thou shouldst have seemed a treasure house divineJ
Of peaceful years a chronicle of heavenK
Of all the sunbeams that did ever shineJ
The very sweetest had to thee been givenK
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A Picture had it been of lasting easeL
Elysian quiet without toil or strifeM
No motion but the moving tide a breezeL
Or merely silent Nature's breathing lifeM
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Such in the fond illusion of my heartN
Such Picture would I at that time have madeO
And seen the soul of truth in every partN
A steadfast peace that might not be betrayedO
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So once it would have been 'tis so no moreP
I have submitted to a new controlQ
A power is gone which nothing can restoreP
A deep distress hath humanised my SoulQ
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Not for a moment could I now beholdR
A smiling sea and be what I have beenS
The feeling of my loss will ne'er be oldR
This which I know I speak with mind sereneT
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Then Beaumont Friend who would have been the FriendU
If he had lived of Him whom I deploreP
This work of thine I blame not but commendU
This sea in anger and that dismal shoreP
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O 'tis a passionate Work yet wise and wellV
Well chosen is the spirit that is hereW
That Hulk which labours in the deadly swellV
This rueful sky this pageantry of fearX
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And this huge Castle standing here sublimeY
I love to see the look with which it bravesZ
Cased in the unfeeling armour of old timeY
The lightning the fierce wind the trampling wavesZ
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Farewell farewell the heart that lives aloneA2
Housed in a dream at distance from the KindB2
Such happiness wherever it be knownA2
Is to be pitied for 'tis surely blindB2
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But welcome fortitude and patient cheerX
And frequent sights of what is to be borneC2
Such sights or worse as are before me hereW
Not without hope we suffer and we mournC2

William Wordsworth



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