Lines Left Upon A Seat In A Yew-tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIGJKLMNJOPQR STUDVWJXJJBYZA2B2C2D 2E2F2SMG2H2I2J2K2L2M 2N2O2GP2Q2R2G2S2T2U2 V2W2X2RE2Y2

Nay Traveller rest This lonely Yew tree standsA
Far from all human dwelling what if hereB
No sparkling rivulet spread the verdant herbC
What if the bee love not these barren boughsD
Yet if the wind breathe soft the curling wavesE
That break against the shore shall lull thy mindF
By one soft impulse saved from vacancyG
Who he wasH
That piled these stones and with the mossy sodI
First covered and here taught this aged TreeG
With its dark arms to form a circling bowerJ
I well remember He was one who ownedK
No common soul In youth by science nursedL
And led by nature into a wild sceneM
Of lofty hopes he to the world went forthN
A favoured Being knowing no desireJ
Which genius did not hallow 'gainst the taintO
Of dissolute tongues and jealousy and hateP
And scorn against all enemies preparedQ
All but neglect The world for so it thoughtR
Owed him no service wherefore he at onceS
With indignation turned himself awayT
And with the food of pride sustained his soulU
In solitude Stranger these gloomy boughsD
Had charms for him and here he loved to sitV
His only visitants a straggling sheepW
The stone chat or the glancing sand piperJ
And on these barren rocks with fern and heathX
And juniper and thistle sprinkled o'erJ
Fixing his downcast eye he many an hourJ
A morbid pleasure nourished tracing hereB
An emblem of his own unfruitful lifeY
And lifting up his head he then would gazeZ
On the more distant scene how lovely 'tisA2
Thou seest and he would gaze till it becameB2
Far lovelier and his heart could not sustainC2
The beauty still more beauteous Nor that timeD2
When nature had subdued him to herselfE2
Would he forget those Beings to whose mindsF2
Warm from the labours of benevolenceS
The world and human life appeared a sceneM
Of kindred loveliness then he would sighG2
Inly disturbed to think that others feltH2
What he must never feel and so lost ManI2
On visionary views would fancy feedJ2
Till his eye streamed with tears In this deep valeK2
He died this seat his only monumentL2
If Thou be one whose heart the holy formsM2
Of young imagination have kept pureN2
Stranger henceforth be warned and know that prideO2
Howe'er disguised in its own majestyG
Is littleness that he who feels contemptP2
For any living thing hath facultiesQ2
Which he has never used that thought with himR2
Is in its infancy The man whose eyeG2
Is ever on himself doth look on oneS2
The least of Nature's works one who might moveT2
The wise man to that scorn which wisdom holdsU2
Unlawful ever O be wiser ThouV2
Instructed that true knowledge leads to loveW2
True dignity abides with him aloneX2
Who in the silent hour of inward thoughtR
Can still suspect and still revere himselfE2
In lowliness of heartY2

William Wordsworth



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