Gold And Silver Fishes In A Vase Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MNLNOPOP QRQRSTUV WXWXYPYP ZA2ZB2C2D2C2E2| The soaring lark is blest as proud | A |
| When at heaven's gate she sings | B |
| The roving bee proclaims aloud | A |
| Her flight by vocal wings | B |
| While Ye in lasting durance pent | C |
| Your silent lives employ | D |
| For something more than dull content | C |
| Though haply less than joy | D |
| - | |
| Yet might your glassy prison seem | E |
| A place where joy is known | F |
| Where golden flash and silver gleam | E |
| Have meanings of their own | F |
| While high and low and all about | G |
| Your motions glittering Elves | H |
| Ye weave no danger from without | G |
| And peace among yourselves | H |
| - | |
| Type of a sunny human breast | I |
| Is your transparent cell | J |
| Where Fear is but a transient guest | I |
| No sullen Humours dwell | J |
| Where sensitive of every ray | K |
| That smites this tiny sea | L |
| Your scaly panoplies repay | K |
| The loan with usury | L |
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| How beautiful Yet none knows why | M |
| This ever graceful change | N |
| Renewed renewed incessantly | L |
| Within your quiet range | N |
| Is it that ye with conscious skill | O |
| For mutual pleasure glide | P |
| And sometimes not without your will | O |
| Are dwarfed or magnified | P |
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| Fays Genii of gigantic size | Q |
| And now in twilight dim | R |
| Clustering like constellated eyes | Q |
| In wings of Cherubim | R |
| When the fierce orbs abate their glare | S |
| Whate'er your forms express | T |
| Whate'er ye seem whate'er ye are | U |
| All leads to gentleness | V |
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| Cold though your nature be 'tis pure | W |
| Your birthright is a fence | X |
| From all that haughtier kinds endure | W |
| Through tyranny of sense | X |
| Ah not alone by colours bright | Y |
| Are Ye to heaven allied | P |
| When like essential Forms of light | Y |
| Ye mingle or divide | P |
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| For day dreams soft as e'er beguiled | Z |
| Day thoughts while limbs repose | A2 |
| For moonlight fascinations mild | Z |
| Your gift ere shutters close | B2 |
| Accept mute Captives thanks and praise | C2 |
| And may this tribute prove | D2 |
| That gentle admirations raise | C2 |
| Delight resembling love | E2 |
William Wordsworth
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