Expostulation And Reply Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFD HIHI JKJK LMLL NONO ABAD| quot Why William on that old grey stone | A |
| Thus for the length of half a day | B |
| Why William sit you thus alone | A |
| And dream your time away | B |
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| quot Where are your books that light bequeathed | C |
| To Beings else forlorn and blind | D |
| Up up and drink the spirit breathed | E |
| From dead men to their kind | D |
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| quot You look round on your Mother Earth | F |
| As if she for no purpose bore you | G |
| As if you were her first born birth | F |
| And none had lived before you quot | D |
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| One morning thus by Esthwaite lake | H |
| When life was sweet I knew not why | I |
| To me my good friend Matthew spake | H |
| And thus I made reply | I |
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| quot The eye it cannot choose but see | J |
| We cannot bid the ear be still | K |
| Our bodies feel where'er they be | J |
| Against or with our will | K |
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| quot Nor less I deem that there are Powers | L |
| Which of themselves our minds impress | M |
| That we can feed this mind of ours | L |
| In a wise passiveness | L |
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| quot Think you 'mid all this mighty sum | N |
| Of things for ever speaking | O |
| That nothing of itself will come | N |
| But we must still be seeking | O |
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| quot Then ask not wherefore here alone | A |
| Conversing as I may | B |
| I sit upon this old grey stone | A |
| And dream my time away quot | D |
William Wordsworth
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