Lines Left Upon A Seat In A Yew-tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIGJKLMNJOPQR STUDVWJXJJBYZA2B2C2D 2E2F2SMG2H2I2J2K2L2M 2N2O2GP2Q2R2G2S2T2U2 V2W2X2RE2Y2Nay Traveller rest This lonely Yew tree stands | A |
Far from all human dwelling what if here | B |
No sparkling rivulet spread the verdant herb | C |
What if the bee love not these barren boughs | D |
Yet if the wind breathe soft the curling waves | E |
That break against the shore shall lull thy mind | F |
By one soft impulse saved from vacancy | G |
Who he was | H |
That piled these stones and with the mossy sod | I |
First covered and here taught this aged Tree | G |
With its dark arms to form a circling bower | J |
I well remember He was one who owned | K |
No common soul In youth by science nursed | L |
And led by nature into a wild scene | M |
Of lofty hopes he to the world went forth | N |
A favoured Being knowing no desire | J |
Which genius did not hallow 'gainst the taint | O |
Of dissolute tongues and jealousy and hate | P |
And scorn against all enemies prepared | Q |
All but neglect The world for so it thought | R |
Owed him no service wherefore he at once | S |
With indignation turned himself away | T |
And with the food of pride sustained his soul | U |
In solitude Stranger these gloomy boughs | D |
Had charms for him and here he loved to sit | V |
His only visitants a straggling sheep | W |
The stone chat or the glancing sand piper | J |
And on these barren rocks with fern and heath | X |
And juniper and thistle sprinkled o'er | J |
Fixing his downcast eye he many an hour | J |
A morbid pleasure nourished tracing here | B |
An emblem of his own unfruitful life | Y |
And lifting up his head he then would gaze | Z |
On the more distant scene how lovely 'tis | A2 |
Thou seest and he would gaze till it became | B2 |
Far lovelier and his heart could not sustain | C2 |
The beauty still more beauteous Nor that time | D2 |
When nature had subdued him to herself | E2 |
Would he forget those Beings to whose minds | F2 |
Warm from the labours of benevolence | S |
The world and human life appeared a scene | M |
Of kindred loveliness then he would sigh | G2 |
Inly disturbed to think that others felt | H2 |
What he must never feel and so lost Man | I2 |
On visionary views would fancy feed | J2 |
Till his eye streamed with tears In this deep vale | K2 |
He died this seat his only monument | L2 |
If Thou be one whose heart the holy forms | M2 |
Of young imagination have kept pure | N2 |
Stranger henceforth be warned and know that pride | O2 |
Howe'er disguised in its own majesty | G |
Is littleness that he who feels contempt | P2 |
For any living thing hath faculties | Q2 |
Which he has never used that thought with him | R2 |
Is in its infancy The man whose eye | G2 |
Is ever on himself doth look on one | S2 |
The least of Nature's works one who might move | T2 |
The wise man to that scorn which wisdom holds | U2 |
Unlawful ever O be wiser Thou | V2 |
Instructed that true knowledge leads to love | W2 |
True dignity abides with him alone | X2 |
Who in the silent hour of inward thought | R |
Can still suspect and still revere himself | E2 |
In lowliness of heart | Y2 |
William Wordsworth
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