Memory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED BBBB BFBG HIHI JKJK LMLLM| A pen to register a key | A |
| That winds through secret wards | B |
| Are well assigned to Memory | A |
| By allegoric Bards | B |
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| As aptly also might be given | C |
| A Pencil to her hand | D |
| That softening objects sometimes even | E |
| Outstrips the heart's demand | D |
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| That smooths foregone distress the lines | B |
| Of lingering care subdues | B |
| Long vanished happiness refines | B |
| And clothes in brighter hues | B |
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| Yet like a tool of Fancy works | B |
| Those Spectres to dilate | F |
| That startle Conscience as she lurks | B |
| Within her lonely seat | G |
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| Oh that our lives which flee so fast | H |
| In purity were such | I |
| That not an image of the past | H |
| Should fear that pencil's touch | I |
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| Retirement then might hourly look | J |
| Upon a soothing scene | K |
| Age steal to his allotted nook | J |
| Contented and serene | K |
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| With heart as calm as lakes that sleep | L |
| In frosty moonlight glistening | M |
| Or mountain rivers where they creep | L |
| Along a channel smooth and deep | L |
| To their own far off murmurs listening | M |
William Wordsworth
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