Inscriptions Written With A Slate Pencil Upon A Stone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGAHIJKLMNOPAQRJ KKSKTUKVWXKYZA2O

THE LARGEST OF A HEAP LYING NEAR A DESERTED QUARRY UPON ONE OF THE ISLANDS AT RYDALA
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Stranger this hillock of mis shapen stonesB
Is not a Ruin spared or made by timeC
Nor as perchance thou rashly deem'st the CairnD
Of some old British Chief 'tis nothing moreE
Than the rude embryo of a little DomeF
Or Pleasure house once destined to be builtG
Among the birch trees of this rocky isleA
But as it chanced Sir William having learnedH
That from the shore a full grown man might wadeI
And make himself a freeman of this spotJ
At any hour he chose the prudent KnightK
Desisted and the quarry and the moundL
Are monuments of his unfinished taskM
The block on which these lines are traced perhapsN
Was once selected as the corner stoneO
Of that intended Pile which would have beenP
Some quaint odd plaything of elaborate skillA
So that I guess the linnet and the thrushQ
And other little builders who dwell hereR
Had wondered at the work But blame him notJ
For old Sir William was a gentle KnightK
Bled in this vale to which he appertainedK
With all his ancestry Then peace to himS
And for the outrage which he had devisedK
Entire forgiveness But if thou art oneT
On fire with thy impatience to becomeU
An inmate of these mountains if disturbedK
By beautiful conceptions thou hast hewnV
Out of the quiet rock the elementsW
Of thy trim Mansion destined soon to blazeX
In snow white splendour think again and taughtK
By old Sir William and his quarry leaveY
Thy fragments to the bramble and the roseZ
There let the vernal slow worm sun himselfA2
And let the redbreast hop from stone to stoneO

William Wordsworth



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