Lyre! Though Such Power Do In Thy Magic Live Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDCCEFFEGHHIIJGKL KGEE MKHHKNONMHPHPLyre though such power do in thy magic live | A |
As might from India's farthest plain | B |
Recall the not unwilling Maid | C |
Assist me to detain | B |
The lovely Fugitive | D |
Check with thy notes the impulse which betrayed | C |
By her sweet farewell looks I longed to aid | C |
Here let me gaze enrapt upon that eye | E |
The impregnable and awe inspiring fort | F |
Of contemplation the calm port | F |
By reason fenced from winds that sigh | E |
Among the restless sails of vanity | G |
But if no wish be hers that we should part | H |
A humbler bliss would satisfy my heart | H |
Where all things are so fair | I |
Enough by her dear side to breathe the air | I |
Of this Elysian weather | J |
And on or in or near the brook espy | G |
Shade upon the sunshine lying | K |
Faint and somewhat pensively | L |
And downward Image gaily vying | K |
With its upright living tree | G |
'Mid silver clouds and openings of blue sky | E |
As soft almost and deep as her cerulean eye | E |
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Nor less the joy with many a glance | M |
Cast up the Stream or down at her beseeching | K |
To mark its eddying foam balls prettily distrest | H |
By ever changing shape and want of rest | H |
Or watch with mutual teaching | K |
The current as it plays | N |
In flashing leaps and stealthy creeps | O |
Adown a rocky maze | N |
Or note translucent summer's happiest chance | M |
In the slope channel floored with pebbles bright | H |
Stones of all hues gem emulous of gem | P |
So vivid that they take from keenest sight | H |
The liquid veil that seeks not to hide them | P |
William Wordsworth
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