Inscriptions Written With A Slate Pencil Upon A Stone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGAHIJKLMNOPAQRJ KKSKTUKVWXKYZA2OTHE LARGEST OF A HEAP LYING NEAR A DESERTED QUARRY UPON ONE OF THE ISLANDS AT RYDAL | A |
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Stranger this hillock of mis shapen stones | B |
Is not a Ruin spared or made by time | C |
Nor as perchance thou rashly deem'st the Cairn | D |
Of some old British Chief 'tis nothing more | E |
Than the rude embryo of a little Dome | F |
Or Pleasure house once destined to be built | G |
Among the birch trees of this rocky isle | A |
But as it chanced Sir William having learned | H |
That from the shore a full grown man might wade | I |
And make himself a freeman of this spot | J |
At any hour he chose the prudent Knight | K |
Desisted and the quarry and the mound | L |
Are monuments of his unfinished task | M |
The block on which these lines are traced perhaps | N |
Was once selected as the corner stone | O |
Of that intended Pile which would have been | P |
Some quaint odd plaything of elaborate skill | A |
So that I guess the linnet and the thrush | Q |
And other little builders who dwell here | R |
Had wondered at the work But blame him not | J |
For old Sir William was a gentle Knight | K |
Bled in this vale to which he appertained | K |
With all his ancestry Then peace to him | S |
And for the outrage which he had devised | K |
Entire forgiveness But if thou art one | T |
On fire with thy impatience to become | U |
An inmate of these mountains if disturbed | K |
By beautiful conceptions thou hast hewn | V |
Out of the quiet rock the elements | W |
Of thy trim Mansion destined soon to blaze | X |
In snow white splendour think again and taught | K |
By old Sir William and his quarry leave | Y |
Thy fragments to the bramble and the rose | Z |
There let the vernal slow worm sun himself | A2 |
And let the redbreast hop from stone to stone | O |
William Wordsworth
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