Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 V. To A Highland Girl - At Inversneyde, Upon Loch Lomond Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK LMMNNOPQQRRSSQQRRRRT TUUQQQVVWWRRXXYZQQXX XRRRRRRAAQQQQQQA2A2A 2| Sweet Highland Girl a very shower | A |
| Of beauty is thy earthly dower | B |
| Twice seven consenting years have shed | C |
| Their utmost bounty on thy head | C |
| And these grey rocks that household lawn | D |
| Those trees a veil just half withdrawn | D |
| This fall of water that doth make | E |
| A murmur near the silent lake | E |
| This little bay a quiet road | F |
| That holds in shelter thy Abode | F |
| In truth together do ye seem | G |
| Like something fashioned in a dream | G |
| Such Forms as from their covert peep | H |
| When earthly cares are laid asleep | H |
| But O fair Creature in the light | I |
| Of common day so heavenly bright | I |
| I bless Thee Vision as thou art | J |
| I bless thee with a human heart | J |
| God shield thee to thy latest years | K |
| Thee neither know I nor thy peers | K |
| And yet my eyes are filled with tears | L |
| With earnest feeling I shall pray | M |
| For thee when I am far away | M |
| For never saw I mien or face | N |
| In which more plainly I could trace | N |
| Benignity and home bred sense | O |
| Ripening in perfect innocence | P |
| Here scattered like a random seed | Q |
| Remote from men Thou dost not need | Q |
| The embarrassed look of shy distress | R |
| And maidenly shamefacedness | R |
| Thou wear'st upon thy forehead clear | S |
| The freedom of a Mountaineer | S |
| A face with gladness overspread | Q |
| Soft smiles by human kindness bred | Q |
| And seemliness complete that sways | R |
| Thy courtesies about thee plays | R |
| With no restraint but such as springs | R |
| From quick and eager visitings | R |
| Of thoughts that lie beyond the reach | T |
| Of thy few words of English speech | T |
| A bondage sweetly brooked a strife | U |
| That gives thy gestures grace and life | U |
| So have I not unmoved in mind | Q |
| Seen birds of tempest loving kind | Q |
| Thus beating up against the wind | Q |
| What hand but would a garland cull | V |
| For thee who art so beautiful | V |
| O happy pleasure here to dwell | W |
| Beside thee in some heathy dell | W |
| Adopt your homely ways and dress | R |
| A Shepherd thou a Shepherdess | R |
| But I could frame a wish for thee | X |
| More like a grave reality | X |
| Thou art to me but as a wave | Y |
| Of the wild sea and I would have | Z |
| Some claim upon thee if I could | Q |
| Though but of common neighbourhood | Q |
| What joy to hear thee and to see | X |
| Thy elder Brother I would be | X |
| Thy Father anything to thee | X |
| Now thanks to Heaven that of its grace | R |
| Hath led me to this lonely place | R |
| Joy have I had and going hence | R |
| I bear away my recompence | R |
| In spots like these it is we prize | R |
| Our Memory feel that she hath eyes | R |
| Then why should I be loth to stir | A |
| I feel this place was made for her | A |
| To give new pleasure like the past | Q |
| Continued long as life shall last | Q |
| Nor am I loth though pleased at heart | Q |
| Sweet Highland Girl from thee to part | Q |
| For I methinks till I grow old | Q |
| As fair before me shall behold | Q |
| As I do now the cabin small | A2 |
| The lake the bay the waterfall | A2 |
| And Thee the Spirit of them all | A2 |
William Wordsworth
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