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 N2O2N2O2I | A |
STRANGE fits of passion have I known | B |
And I will dare to tell | C |
But in the lover's ear alone | B |
What once to me befell | C |
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When she I loved look'd every day | D |
Fresh as a rose in June | E |
I to her cottage bent my way | D |
Beneath an evening moon | E |
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Upon the moon I fix'd my eye | A |
All over the wide lea | F |
With quickening pace my horse drew nigh | A |
Those paths so dear to me | F |
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And now we reach'd the orchard plot | G |
And as we climb'd the hill | H |
The sinking moon to Lucy's cot | G |
Came near and nearer still | H |
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In one of those sweet dreams I slept | I |
Kind Nature's gentlest boon | E |
And all the while my eyes I kept | I |
On the descending moon | E |
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My horse moved on hoof after hoof | J |
He raised and never stopp'd | K |
When down behind the cottage roof | J |
At once the bright moon dropp'd | K |
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What fond and wayward thoughts will slide | L |
Into a lover's head | M |
'O mercy ' to myself I cried | L |
'If Lucy should be dead ' | - |
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II | A |
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HE dwelt among the untrodden ways | N |
Beside the springs of Dove | O |
A Maid whom there were none to praise | N |
And very few to love | O |
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A violet by a mossy stone | B |
Half hidden from the eye | A |
Fair as a star when only one | P |
Is shining in the sky | A |
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She lived unknown and few could know | Q |
When Lucy ceased to be | F |
But she is in her grave and oh | Q |
The difference to me | F |
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III | A |
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TRAVELL'D among unknown men | R |
In lands beyond the sea | F |
Nor England did I know till then | R |
What love I bore to thee | F |
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'Tis past that melancholy dream | S |
Nor will I quit thy shore | T |
A second time for still I seem | S |
To love thee more and more | T |
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Among the mountains did I feel | U |
The joy of my desire | V |
And she I cherish'd turn'd her wheel | U |
Beside an English fire | V |
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Thy mornings show'd thy nights conceal'd | W |
The bowers where Lucy play'd | X |
And thine too is the last green field | W |
That Lucy's eyes survey'd | X |
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IV | O |
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HREE years she grew in sun and shower | V |
Then Nature said 'A lovelier flower | V |
On earth was never sown | B |
This child I to myself will take | Y |
She shall be mine and I will make | Y |
A lady of my own | B |
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'Myself will to my darling be | F |
Both law and impulse and with me | F |
The girl in rock and plain | Z |
In earth and heaven in glade and bower | V |
Shall feel an overseeing power | V |
To kindle or restrain | Z |
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'She shall be sportive as the fawn | A2 |
That wild with glee across the lawn | A2 |
Or up the mountain springs | B2 |
And hers shall be the breathing balm | C2 |
And hers the silence and the calm | C2 |
Of mute insensate things | B2 |
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'The floating clouds their state shall lend | D2 |
To her for her the willow bend | D2 |
Nor shall she fail to see | F |
Even in the motions of the storm | E2 |
Grace that shall mould the maiden's form | E2 |
By silent sympathy | F |
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'The stars of midnight shall be dear | F2 |
To her and she shall lean her ear | G2 |
In many a secret place | H2 |
Where rivulets dance their wayward round | I2 |
And beauty born of murmuring sound | I2 |
Shall pass into her face | H2 |
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'And vital feelings of delight | J2 |
Shall rear her form to stately height | J2 |
Her virgin bosom swell | C |
Such thoughts to Lucy I will give | O |
While she and I together live | O |
Here in this happy dell ' | - |
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Thus Nature spake The work was done | P |
How soon my Lucy's race was run | P |
She died and left to me | F |
This heath this calm and quiet scene | K2 |
The memory of what has been | L2 |
And never more will be | F |
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V | F |
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SLUMBER did my spirit seal | U |
I had no human fears | M2 |
She seem'd a thing that could not feel | U |
The touch of earthly years | M2 |
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No motion has she now no force | N2 |
She neither hears nor sees | O2 |
Roll'd round in earth's diurnal course | N2 |
With rocks and stones and trees | O2 |
William Wordsworth
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