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 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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