Poet William Wordsworth

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Extempore Effusion Upon The Death Of James Hogg Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH DJKJ ELMN OPGP GQRS TUVU WXDX YZWZ A2B2C2E

When first descending from the moorlandsA
I saw the Stream of Yarrow glideB
Along a bare and open valleyC
The Ettrick Shepherd was my guideB
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When last along its banks I wanderedD
Through groves that had begun to shedE
Their golden leaves upon the pathwaysF
My steps the Border minstrel ledE
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The mighty Minstrel breathes no longerG
'Mid mouldering ruins low he liesH
And death upon the braes of YarrowI
Has closed the Shepherd poet's eyesH
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Nor has the rolling year twice measuredD
From sign to sign its stedfast courseJ
Since every mortal power of ColeridgeK
Was frozen at its marvellous sourceJ
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The rapt One of the godlike foreheadE
The heaven eyed creature sleeps in earthL
And Lamb the frolic and the gentleM
Has vanished from his lonely hearthN
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Like clouds that rake the mountain summitsO
Or waves that own no curbing handP
How fast has brother followed brotherG
From sunshine to the sunless landP
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Yet I whose lids from infant slumberG
Were earlier raised remain to hearQ
A timid voice that asks in whispersR
Who next will drop and disappearS
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Our haughty life is crowned with darknessT
Like London with its own black wreathU
On which with thee O Crabbe forth lookingV
I gazed from Hampstead's breezy heathU
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As if but yesterday departedW
Thou too art gone before but whyX
O'er ripe fruit seasonably gatheredD
Should frail survivors heave a sighX
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Mourn rather for that holy SpiritY
Sweet as the spring as ocean deepZ
For Her who ere her summer fadedW
Has sunk into a breathless sleepZ
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No more of old romantic sorrowsA2
For slaughtered Youth or love lorn MaidB2
With sharper grief is Yarrow smittenC2
And Ettrick mourns with her their Poet deadE

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