Liberty - Sequel To - The Gold And Silver Fishes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJK LMNNOPHHHQQQRRSSHHQQ TTJJJDDHHHHUUVVWWHHX XYYHHGCCZA2B2B2LC2D2 D2E2E2F2F2HHG2G2HHKK HHH2H2I2I2IJ2J2K2L2M 2M2DDBBHHHHHN2N2HHO2 O2P2P2QHHQ2Q2HHD2D2G J2HHHXXHHR2R2YYThose breathing Tokens of your kind regard | A |
Suspect not Anna that their fate is hard | A |
Not soon does aught to which mild fancies cling | B |
In lonely spots become a slighted thing | B |
Those silent Inmates now no longer share | C |
Nor do they need our hospitable care | C |
Removed in kindness from their glassy Cell | D |
To the fresh waters of a living Well | D |
An elfin pool so sheltered that its rest | E |
No winds disturb the mirror of whose breast | E |
Is smooth as clear save where with dimples small | F |
A fly may settle or a blossom fall | F |
'There' swims of blazing sun and beating shower | G |
Fearless but how obscured the golden Power | G |
That from his bauble prison used to cast | H |
Gleams by the richest jewel unsurpast | H |
And near him darkling like a sullen Gnome | I |
The silver Tenant of the crystal dome | I |
Dissevered both from all the mysteries | J |
Of hue and altering shape that charmed all eyes | K |
Alas they pined they languished while they shone | L |
And if not so what matters beauty gone | M |
And admiration lost by change of place | N |
That brings to the inward creature no disgrace | N |
But if the change restore his birthright then | O |
Whate'er the difference boundless is the gain | P |
Who can divine what impulses from God | H |
Reach the caged lark within a town abode | H |
From his poor inch or two of daisied sod | H |
O yield him back his privilege No sea | Q |
Swells like the bosom of a man set free | Q |
A wilderness is rich with liberty | Q |
Roll on ye spouting whales who die or keep | R |
Your independence in the fathomless Deep | R |
Spread tiny nautilus the living sail | S |
Dive at thy choice or brave the freshening gale | S |
If unreproved the ambitious eagle mount | H |
Sunward to seek the daylight in its fount | H |
Bays gulfs and ocean's Indian width shall be | Q |
Till the world perishes a field for thee | Q |
While musing here I sit in shadow cool | T |
And watch these mute Companions in the pool | T |
Among reflected boughs of leafy trees | J |
By glimpses caught disporting at their ease | J |
Enlivened braced by hardy luxuries | J |
I ask what warrant fixed them like a spell | D |
Of witchcraft fixed them in the crystal cell | D |
To wheel with languid motion round and round | H |
Beautiful yet in mournful durance bound | H |
Their peace perhaps our lightest footfall marred | H |
On their quick sense our sweetest music jarred | H |
And whither could they dart if seized with fear | U |
No sheltering stone no tangled root was near | U |
When fire or taper ceased to cheer the room | V |
They wore away the night in starless gloom | V |
And when the sun first dawned upon the streams | W |
How faint their portion of his vital beams | W |
Thus and unable to complain they fared | H |
While not one joy of ours by them was shared | H |
Is there a cherished bird I venture now | X |
To snatch a sprig from Chaucer's reverend brow | X |
Is there a brilliant fondling of the cage | Y |
Though sure of plaudits on his costly stage | Y |
Though fed with dainties from the snow white hand | H |
Of a kind mistress fairest of the land | H |
But gladly would escape and if need were | G |
Scatter the colours from the plumes that bear | C |
The emancipated captive through blithe air | C |
Into strange woods where he at large may live | Z |
On best or worst which they and Nature give | A2 |
The beetle loves his unpretending track | B2 |
The snail the house he carries on his back | B2 |
The far fetched worm with pleasure would disown | L |
The bed we give him though of softest down | C2 |
A noble instinct in all kinds the same | D2 |
All ranks What Sovereign worthy of the name | D2 |
If doomed to breathe against his lawful will | E2 |
An element that flatters him to kill | E2 |
But would rejoice to barter outward show | F2 |
For the least boon that freedom can bestow | F2 |
But most the Bard is true to inborn right | H |
Lark of the dawn and Philomel of night | H |
Exults in freedom can with rapture vouch | G2 |
For the dear blessings of a lowly couch | G2 |
A natural meal days months from Nature's hand | H |
Time place and business all at his command | H |
Who bends to happier duties who more wise | K |
Than the industrious Poet taught to prize | K |
Above all grandeur a pure life uncrossed | H |
By cares in which simplicity is lost | H |
That life the flowery path that winds by stealth | H2 |
Which Horace needed for his spirit's health | H2 |
Sighed for in heart and genius overcome | I2 |
By noise and strife and questions wearisome | I2 |
And the vain splendours of Imperial Rome | I |
Let easy mirth his social hours inspire | J2 |
And fiction animate his sportive lyre | J2 |
Attuned to verse that crowning light Distress | K2 |
With garlands cheats her into happiness | L2 |
Give 'me' the humblest note of those sad strains | M2 |
Drawn forth by pressure of his gilded chains | M2 |
As a chance sunbeam from his memory fell | D |
Upon the Sabine farm he loved so well | D |
Or when the prattle of Blandusia's spring | B |
Haunted his ear he only listening | B |
He proud to please above all rivals fit | H |
To win the palm of gaiety and wit | H |
He doubt not with involuntary dread | H |
Shrinking from each new favour to be shed | H |
By the world's Ruler on his honoured head | H |
In a deep vision's intellectual scene | N2 |
Such earnest longings and regrets as keen | N2 |
Depressed the melancholy Cowley laid | H |
Under a fancied yew tree's luckless shade | H |
A doleful bower for penitential song | O2 |
Where Man and Muse complained of mutual wrong | O2 |
While Cam's ideal current glided by | P2 |
And antique towers nodded their foreheads high | P2 |
Citadels dear to studious privacy | Q |
But Fortune who had long been used to sport | H |
With this tried Servant of a thankless Court | H |
Relenting met his wishes and to you | Q2 |
The remnant of his days at least was true | Q2 |
You whom though long deserted he loved best | H |
You Muses books fields liberty and rest | H |
Far happier they who fixing hope and aim | D2 |
On the humanities of peaceful fame | D2 |
Enter betimes with more than martial fire | G |
The generous course aspire and still aspire | J2 |
Upheld by warnings heeded not too late | H |
Stifle the contradictions of their fate | H |
And to one purpose cleave their Being's godlike mate | H |
Thus gifted Friend but with the placid brow | X |
That woman ne'er should forfeit keep 'thy' vow | X |
With modest scorn reject whate'er would blind | H |
The ethereal eyesight cramp the winged mind | H |
Then with a blessing granted from above | R2 |
To every act word thought and look of love | R2 |
Life's book for Thee may lie unclosed till age | Y |
Shall with a thankful tear bedrop its latest page | Y |
William Wordsworth
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