Memorials Of A Tour In Italy, 1837 - Xviii. - At Vallombrosa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD ECFCGCGC HCHCIHIH JKJKLMLM NONOPOPO QRQROCOC| Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks | A |
| In Vallombrosa where Etrurian shades | B |
| High over arch'd embower | C |
| Paradise Lost | D |
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| Vallombrosa I longed in thy shadiest wood | E |
| To slumber reclined on the moss covered floor | C |
| Fond wish that was granted at last and the Flood | F |
| That lulled me asleep bids me listen once more | C |
| Its murmur how soft as it falls down the steep | G |
| Near that Cell yon sequestered Retreat high in air | C |
| Where our Milton was wont lonely vigils to keep | G |
| For converse with God sought through study and prayer | C |
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| The Monks still repeat the tradition with pride | H |
| And its truth who shall doubt for his Spirit is here | C |
| In the cloud piercing rocks doth her grandeur abide | H |
| In the pines pointing heavenward her beauty austere | C |
| In the flower besprent meadows his genius we trace | I |
| Turned to humbler delights in which youth might confide | H |
| That would yield him fit help while prefiguring that Place | I |
| Where if Sin had not entered Love never had died | H |
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| When with life lengthened out came a desolate time | J |
| And darkness and danger had compassed him round | K |
| With a thought he would flee to these haunts of his prime | J |
| And here once again a kind shelter be found | K |
| And let me believe that when nightly the Muse | L |
| Did waft him to Sion the glorified hill | M |
| Here also on some favoured height he would choose | L |
| To wander and drink inspiration at will | M |
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| Vallombrosa of thee I first heard in the page | N |
| Of that holiest of Bards and the name for my mind | O |
| Had a musical charm which the winter of age | N |
| And the changes it brings had no power to unbind | O |
| And now ye Miltonian shades under you | P |
| I repose nor am forced from sweet fancy to part | O |
| While your leaves I behold and the brooks they will strew | P |
| And the realised vision is clasped to my heart | O |
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| Even so and unblamed we rejoice as we may | Q |
| In Forms that must perish frail objects of sense | R |
| Unblamed if the Soul be intent on the day | Q |
| When the Being of Beings shall summon her hence | R |
| For he and he only with wisdom is blest | O |
| Who gathering true pleasures wherever they grow | C |
| Looks up in all places for joy or for rest | O |
| To the Fountain whence Time and Eternity flow | C |
William Wordsworth
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