Grace Darling Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST UVWXYZA2 B2LC2D2E2LF2G2H2I2IJ 2K2L2M2UN2O2P2Q2WLR2 HS2T2U2IV2W2X2J2 Y2Z2A3B3C3D3E3UF3G3H 3M2I3J3K3L3M3N3O3P3V Q3R3S3YT3O2U3V3W3X3Y 3LEZ3A4B4C4MAmong the dwellers in the silent fields | A |
The natural heart is touched and public way | B |
And crowded street resound with ballad strains | C |
Inspired by one whose very name bespeaks | D |
Favour divine exalting human love | E |
Whom since her birth on bleak Northumbria's coast | F |
Known unto few but prized as far as known | G |
A single Act endears to high and low | H |
Through the whole land to Manhood moved in spite | I |
Of the world's freezing cares to generous Youth | J |
To Infancy that lisps her praise to Age | K |
Whose eye reflects it glistening through a tear | L |
Of tremulous admiration Such true fame | M |
Awaits her 'now' but verily good deeds | N |
Do not imperishable record find | O |
Save in the rolls of heaven where hers may live | P |
A theme for angels when they celebrate | Q |
The high souled virtues which forgetful earth | R |
Has witnessed Oh that winds and waves could speak | S |
Of things which their united power called forth | T |
From the pure depths of her humanity | U |
A Maiden gentle yet at duty's call | V |
Firm and unflinching as the Lighthouse reared | W |
On the Island rock her lonely dwelling place | X |
Or like the invincible Rock itself that braves | Y |
Age after age the hostile elements | Z |
As when it guarded holy Cuthbert's cell | A2 |
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All night the storm had raged nor ceased nor paused | B2 |
When as day broke the Maid through misty air | L |
Espies far off a Wreck amid the surf | C2 |
Beating on one of those disastrous isles | D2 |
Half of a Vessel half no more the rest | E2 |
Had vanished swallowed up with all that there | L |
Had for the common safety striven in vain | F2 |
Or thither thronged for refuge With quick glance | G2 |
Daughter and Sire through optic glass discern | H2 |
Clinging about the remnant of this Ship | I2 |
Creatures how precious in the Maiden's sight | I |
For whom belike the old Man grieves still more | J2 |
Than for their fellow sufferers engulfed | K2 |
Where every parting agony is hushed | L2 |
And hope and fear mix not in further strife | M2 |
But courage Father let us out to sea | U |
A few may yet be saved The Daughter's words | N2 |
Her earnest tone and look beaming with faith | O2 |
Dispel the Father's doubts nor do they lack | P2 |
The noble minded Mother's helping hand | Q2 |
To launch the boat and with her blessing cheered | W |
And inwardly sustained by silent prayer | L |
Together they put forth Father and Child | R2 |
Each grasps an oar and struggling on they go | H |
Rivals in effort and alike intent | S2 |
Here to elude and there surmount they watch | T2 |
The billows lengthening mutually crossed | U2 |
And shattered and re gathering their might | I |
As if the tumult by the Almighty's will | V2 |
Were in the conscious sea roused and prolonged | W2 |
That woman's fortitude so tried so proved | X2 |
May brighten more and more | J2 |
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True to the mark | Y2 |
They stem the current of that perilous gorge | Z2 |
Their arms still strengthening with the strengthening heart | A3 |
Though danger as the Wreck is neared becomes | B3 |
More imminent Not unseen do they approach | C3 |
And rapture with varieties of fear | D3 |
Incessantly conflicting thrills the frames | E3 |
Of those who in that dauntless energy | U |
Foretaste deliverance but the least perturbed | F3 |
Can scarcely trust his eyes when he perceives | G3 |
That of the pair tossed on the waves to bring | H3 |
Hope to the hopeless to the dying life | M2 |
One is a Woman a poor earthly sister | I3 |
Or be the Visitant other than she seems | J3 |
A guardian Spirit sent from pitying Heaven | K3 |
In woman's shape But why prolong the tale | L3 |
Casting weak words amid a host of thoughts | M3 |
Armed to repel them Every hazard faced | N3 |
And difficulty mastered with resolve | O3 |
That no one breathing should be left to perish | P3 |
This last remainder of the crew are all | V |
Placed in the little boat then o'er the deep | Q3 |
Are safely borne landed upon the beach | R3 |
And in fulfilment of God's mercy lodged | S3 |
Within the sheltering Lighthouse Shout ye Waves | Y |
Send forth a song of triumph Waves and Winds | T3 |
Exult in this deliverance wrought through faith | O2 |
In Him whose Providence your rage hath served | U3 |
Ye screaming Sea mews in the concert join | V3 |
And would that some immortal Voice a Voice | W3 |
Fitly attuned to all that gratitude | X3 |
Breathes out from floor or couch through pallid lips | Y3 |
Of the survivors to the clouds might bear | L |
Blended with praise of that parental love | E |
Beneath whose watchful eye the Maiden grew | Z3 |
Pious and pure modest and yet so brave | A4 |
Though young so wise though meek so resolute | B4 |
Might carry to the clouds and to the stars | C4 |
Yea to celestial Choirs Grace Darling's name | M |
William Wordsworth
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