Poet William Wordsworth

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Epitaphs Iv. There Never Breathed A Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFBGHIJKLMNOPQRS TUVSWQXSYZA2

There never breathed a man who when his lifeA
Was closing might not of that life relateB
Toils long and hard The warrior will reportC
Of wounds and bright swords flashing in the fieldD
And blast of trumpets He who hath been doomedE
To bow his forehead in the courts of kingsF
Will tell of fraud and never ceasing hateB
Envy and heart inquietude derivedG
From intricate cabals of treacherous friendsH
I who on shipboard lived from earliest youthI
Could represent the countenance horribleJ
Of the vexed waters and the indignant rageK
Of Auster and Bootes Fifty yearsL
Over the well steered galleys did I ruleM
From huge Pelorus to the Atlantic pillarsN
Rises no mountain to mine eyes unknownO
And the broad gulfs I traversed oft and oftP
Of every cloud which in the heavens might stirQ
I knew the force and hence the rough sea's prideR
Availed not to my Vessel's overthrowS
What noble pomp and frequent have not IT
On regal decks beheld yet in the endU
I learned that one poor moment can sufficeV
To equalise the lofty and the lowS
We sail the sea of life a 'Calm' One findsW
And One a 'Tempest' and the voyage o'erQ
Death is the quiet haven of us allX
If more of my condition ye would knowS
Savona was my birth place and I sprangY
Of noble parents seventy years and threeZ
Lived I then yielded to a slow diseaseA2

William Wordsworth



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