Memorials Of A Tour Of Scotland, 1803 Vi. Glen-almain, Or, The Narrow Glen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFGHHIIJIIIII IIKKLLMNIIOO| In this still place remote from men | A |
| Sleeps Ossian in the NARROW GLEN | A |
| In this still place where murmurs on | B |
| But one meek streamlet only one | C |
| He sang of battles and the breath | D |
| Of stormy war and violent death | D |
| And should methinks when all was past | E |
| Have rightfully been laid at last | E |
| Where rocks were rudely heaped and rent | F |
| As by a spirit turbulent | G |
| Where sights were rough and sounds were wild | H |
| And everything unreconciled | H |
| In some complaining dim retreat | I |
| For fear and melancholy meet | I |
| But this is calm there cannot be | J |
| A more entire tranquillity | I |
| Does then the Bard sleep here indeed | I |
| Or is it but a groundless creed | I |
| What matters it I blame them not | I |
| Whose Fancy in this lonely Spot | I |
| Was moved and in such way expressed | I |
| Their notion of its perfect rest | I |
| A convent even a hermit's cell | K |
| Would break the silence of this Dell | K |
| It is not quiet is not ease | L |
| But something deeper far than these | L |
| The separation that is here | M |
| Is of the grave and of austere | N |
| Yet happy feelings of the dead | I |
| And therefore was it rightly said | I |
| That Ossian last of all his race | O |
| Lies buried in this lonely place | O |
William Wordsworth
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