Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBCDC EEFGEG HHHIHI JJJKJK LLLCLC MNNOPO AAAAAA QQQAQA HHHAHA RRRSRS IIITUVTHOUGHTS SUGGESTED THE DAY FOLLOWING ON THE BANKS OF NITH NEAR THE POET'S RESIDENCE | A |
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TOO frail to keep the lofty vow | B |
That must have followed when his brow | B |
Was wreathed 'The Vision' tells us how | B |
With holly spray | C |
He faltered drifted to and fro | D |
And passed away | C |
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Well might such thoughts dear Sister throng | E |
Our minds when lingering all too long | E |
Over the grave of Burns we hung | F |
In social grief | G |
Indulged as if it were a wrong | E |
To seek relief | G |
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But leaving each unquiet theme | H |
Where gentlest judgments may misdeem | H |
And prompt to welcome every gleam | H |
Of good and fair | I |
Let us beside this limpid Stream | H |
Breathe hopeful air | I |
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Enough of sorrow wreck and blight | J |
Think rather of those moments bright | J |
When to the consciousness of right | J |
His course was true | K |
When Wisdom prospered in his sight | J |
And virtue grew | K |
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Yes freely let our hearts expand | L |
Freely as in youth's season bland | L |
When side by side his Book in hand | L |
We wont to stray | C |
Our pleasure varying at command | L |
Of each sweet Lay | C |
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How oft inspired must he have trod | M |
These pathways yon far stretching road | N |
There lurks his home in that Abode | N |
With mirth elate | O |
Or in his nobly pensive mood | P |
The Rustic sate | O |
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Proud thoughts that Image overawes | A |
Before it humbly let us pause | A |
And ask of Nature from what cause | A |
And by what rules | A |
She trained her Burns to win applause | A |
That shames the Schools | A |
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Through busiest street and loneliest glen | Q |
Are felt the flashes of his pen | Q |
He rules 'mid winter snows and when | Q |
Bees fill their hives | A |
Deep in the general heart of men | Q |
His power survives | A |
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What need of fields in some far clime | H |
Where Heroes Sages Bards sublime | H |
And all that fetched the flowing rhyme | H |
From genuine springs | A |
Shall dwell together till old Time | H |
Folds up his wings | A |
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Sweet Mercy to the gates of Heaven | R |
This Minstrel lead his sins forgiven | R |
The rueful conflict the heart riven | R |
With vain endeavour | S |
And memory of Earth's bitter leaven | R |
Effaced for ever | S |
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But why to Him confine the prayer | I |
When kindred thoughts and yearnings bear | I |
On the frail heart the purest share | I |
With all that live | T |
The best of what we do and are | U |
Just God forgive | V |
William Wordsworth
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