Ode, Composed On A May Morning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIIHKHK ILILMINI OEOEIPIP QRQRKNKN STSTNUNU IVIVUNUN| While from the purpling east departs | A |
| The star that led the dawn | B |
| Blithe Flora from her couch upstarts | A |
| For May is on the lawn | B |
| A quickening hope a freshening glee | C |
| Foreran the expected Power | D |
| Whose first drawn breath from bush and tree | C |
| Shakes off that pearly shower | D |
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| All Nature welcomes Her whose sway | E |
| Tempers the year's extremes | F |
| Who scattereth lustres o'er noon day | E |
| Like morning's dewy gleams | F |
| While mellow warble sprightly trill | G |
| The tremulous heart excite | H |
| And hums the balmy air to still | G |
| The balance of delight | H |
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| Time was blest Power when youth and maids | I |
| At peep of dawn would rise | J |
| And wander forth in forest glades | I |
| Thy birth to solemnize | I |
| Though mute the song to grace the rite | H |
| Untouched the hawthorn bough | K |
| Thy Spirit triumphs o'er the slight | H |
| Man changes but not Thou | K |
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| Thy feathered Lieges bill and wings | I |
| In love's disport employ | L |
| Warmed by thy influence creeping things | I |
| Awake to silent joy | L |
| Queen art thou still for each gay plant | M |
| Where the slim wild deer roves | I |
| And served in depths where fishes haunt | N |
| Their own mysterious groves | I |
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| Cloud piercing peak and trackless heath | O |
| Instinctive homage pay | E |
| Nor wants the dim lit cave a wreath | O |
| To honor thee sweet May | E |
| Where cities fanned by thy brisk airs | I |
| Behold a smokeless sky | P |
| Their puniest flower pot nursling dares | I |
| To open a bright eye | P |
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| And if on this thy natal morn | Q |
| The pole from which thy name | R |
| Hath not departed stands forlorn | Q |
| Of song and dance and game | R |
| Still from the village green a vow | K |
| Aspires to thee addrest | N |
| Wherever peace is on the brow | K |
| Or love within the breast | N |
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| Yes where Love nestles thou canst teach | S |
| The soul to love the more | T |
| Hearts also shall thy lessons reach | S |
| That never loved before | T |
| Stript is the haughty one of pride | N |
| The bashful freed from fear | U |
| While rising like the ocean tide | N |
| In flow the joyous year | U |
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| Hush feeble lyre weak words refuse | I |
| The service to prolong | V |
| To yon exulting thrush the Muse | I |
| Entrusts the imperfect song | V |
| His voice shall chant in accents clear | U |
| Throughout the live long day | N |
| Till the first silver star appear | U |
| The sovereignty of May | N |
William Wordsworth
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