Lucy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBC DEDE AFAF GHGH IEIE JKJK LML A NONO BAPA QFQF A RFRF STST UVUV WXWX O VVBYYB FFZVVZ A2A2B2C2C2B2 D2D2FE2E2F F2G2H2I2I2H2 J2J2COO PPFK2L2F F UM2UM2 N2O2N2O2

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STRANGE fits of passion have I knownB
And I will dare to tellC
But in the lover's ear aloneB
What once to me befellC
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When she I loved look'd every dayD
Fresh as a rose in JuneE
I to her cottage bent my wayD
Beneath an evening moonE
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Upon the moon I fix'd my eyeA
All over the wide leaF
With quickening pace my horse drew nighA
Those paths so dear to meF
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And now we reach'd the orchard plotG
And as we climb'd the hillH
The sinking moon to Lucy's cotG
Came near and nearer stillH
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In one of those sweet dreams I sleptI
Kind Nature's gentlest boonE
And all the while my eyes I keptI
On the descending moonE
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My horse moved on hoof after hoofJ
He raised and never stopp'dK
When down behind the cottage roofJ
At once the bright moon dropp'dK
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What fond and wayward thoughts will slideL
Into a lover's headM
'O mercy ' to myself I criedL
'If Lucy should be dead '-
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HE dwelt among the untrodden waysN
Beside the springs of DoveO
A Maid whom there were none to praiseN
And very few to loveO
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A violet by a mossy stoneB
Half hidden from the eyeA
Fair as a star when only oneP
Is shining in the skyA
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She lived unknown and few could knowQ
When Lucy ceased to beF
But she is in her grave and ohQ
The difference to meF
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TRAVELL'D among unknown menR
In lands beyond the seaF
Nor England did I know till thenR
What love I bore to theeF
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'Tis past that melancholy dreamS
Nor will I quit thy shoreT
A second time for still I seemS
To love thee more and moreT
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Among the mountains did I feelU
The joy of my desireV
And she I cherish'd turn'd her wheelU
Beside an English fireV
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Thy mornings show'd thy nights conceal'dW
The bowers where Lucy play'dX
And thine too is the last green fieldW
That Lucy's eyes survey'dX
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IVO
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HREE years she grew in sun and showerV
Then Nature said 'A lovelier flowerV
On earth was never sownB
This child I to myself will takeY
She shall be mine and I will makeY
A lady of my ownB
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'Myself will to my darling beF
Both law and impulse and with meF
The girl in rock and plainZ
In earth and heaven in glade and bowerV
Shall feel an overseeing powerV
To kindle or restrainZ
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'She shall be sportive as the fawnA2
That wild with glee across the lawnA2
Or up the mountain springsB2
And hers shall be the breathing balmC2
And hers the silence and the calmC2
Of mute insensate thingsB2
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'The floating clouds their state shall lendD2
To her for her the willow bendD2
Nor shall she fail to seeF
Even in the motions of the stormE2
Grace that shall mould the maiden's formE2
By silent sympathyF
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'The stars of midnight shall be dearF2
To her and she shall lean her earG2
In many a secret placeH2
Where rivulets dance their wayward roundI2
And beauty born of murmuring soundI2
Shall pass into her faceH2
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'And vital feelings of delightJ2
Shall rear her form to stately heightJ2
Her virgin bosom swellC
Such thoughts to Lucy I will giveO
While she and I together liveO
Here in this happy dell '-
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Thus Nature spake The work was doneP
How soon my Lucy's race was runP
She died and left to meF
This heath this calm and quiet sceneK2
The memory of what has beenL2
And never more will beF
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VF
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SLUMBER did my spirit sealU
I had no human fearsM2
She seem'd a thing that could not feelU
The touch of earthly yearsM2
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No motion has she now no forceN2
She neither hears nor seesO2
Roll'd round in earth's diurnal courseN2
With rocks and stones and treesO2

William Wordsworth



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