Fidelity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDEE FGHGIIJJ KLMLLNOO PQRQSSTTT UVWVXXGY BQZQA2A2VV B2C2D2C2GGE2E2 VF2G2F2H2H2I2J2| A BARKING sound the Shepherd hears | A |
| A cry as of a dog or fox | B |
| He halts and searches with his eyes | C |
| Among the scattered rocks | B |
| And now at distance can discern | D |
| A stirring in a brake of fern | D |
| And instantly a dog is seen | E |
| Glancing through that covert green | E |
| - | |
| The Dog is not of mountain breed | F |
| Its motions too are wild and shy | G |
| With something as the Shepherd thinks | H |
| Unusual in its cry | G |
| Nor is there any one in sight | I |
| All round in hollow or on height | I |
| Nor shout nor whistle strikes his ear | J |
| What is the creature doing here | J |
| - | |
| It was a cove a huge recess | K |
| That keeps till June December's snow | L |
| A lofty precipice in front | M |
| A silent tarn below | L |
| Far in the bosom of Helvellyn | L |
| Remote from public road or dwelling | N |
| Pathway or cultivated land | O |
| From trace of human foot or hand | O |
| - | |
| There sometimes doth a leaping fish | P |
| Send through the tarn a lonely cheer | Q |
| The crags repeat the raven's croak | R |
| In symphony austere | Q |
| Thither the rainbow comes the cloud | S |
| And mists that spread the flying shroud | S |
| And sunbeams and the sounding blast | T |
| That if it could would hurry past | T |
| But that enormous barrier holds it fast | T |
| - | |
| Not free from boding thoughts a while | U |
| The Shepherd stood then makes his way | V |
| O'er rocks and stones following the Dog | W |
| As quickly as he may | V |
| Nor far had gone before he found | X |
| A human skeleton on the ground | X |
| The appalled Discoverer with a sigh | G |
| Looks round to learn the history | Y |
| - | |
| From those abrupt and perilous rocks | B |
| The Man had fallen that place of fear | Q |
| At length upon the Shepherd's mind | Z |
| It breaks and all is clear | Q |
| He instantly recalled the name | A2 |
| And who he was and whence he came | A2 |
| Remembered too the very day | V |
| On which the Traveller passed this way | V |
| - | |
| But hear a wonder for whose sake | B2 |
| This lamentable tale I tell | C2 |
| A lasting monument of words | D2 |
| This wonder merits well | C2 |
| The Dog which still was hovering nigh | G |
| Repeating the same timid cry | G |
| This Dog had been through three months' space | E2 |
| A dweller in that savage place | E2 |
| - | |
| Yes proof was plain that since the day | V |
| When this ill fated Traveller died | F2 |
| The Dog had watched about the spot | G2 |
| Or by his master's side | F2 |
| How nourished here through such long time | H2 |
| He knows who gave that love sublime | H2 |
| And gave that strength of feeling great | I2 |
| Above all human estimate | J2 |
William Wordsworth
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