Lucy Iv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEAAE FFGHHG IIDJJD KLMNNM OOPQR SSDTUDThree years she grew in sun and shower | A |
Then Nature said 'A lovelier flower | A |
On earth was never sown | B |
This child I to myself will take | C |
She shall be mine and I will make | C |
A lady of my own | B |
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Myself will to my darling be | D |
Both law and impulse and with me | D |
The girl in rock and plain | E |
In earth and heaven in glade and bower | A |
Shall feel an overseeing power | A |
To kindle or restrain | E |
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'She shall be sportive as the fawn | F |
That wild with glee across the lawn | F |
Or up the mountain springs | G |
And hers shall be the breathing balm | H |
And hers the silence and the calm | H |
Of mute insensate things | G |
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'The floating clouds their state shall lend | I |
To her for her the willow bend | I |
Nor shall she fail to see | D |
Even in the motions of the storm | J |
Grace that shall mould the maiden's form | J |
By silent sympathy | D |
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'The stars of midnight shall be dear | K |
To her and she shall lean her ear | L |
In many a secret place | M |
Where rivulets dance their wayward round | N |
And beauty born of murmuring sound | N |
Shall pass into her face | M |
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'And vital feelings of delight | O |
Shall rear her form to stately height | O |
Her virgin bosom swell | P |
Such thoughts to Lucy I will give | Q |
While she and I together live | R |
Here in this happy dell ' | - |
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Thus Nature spake The work was done | S |
How soon my Lucy's race was run | S |
She died and left to me | D |
This heath this calm and quiet scene | T |
The memory of what has been | U |
And never more will be | D |
William Wordsworth
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