Ode On Intimations Of Immortality Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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From Recollections of Early ChildhoodA
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The Child is father of the ManB
And I could wish my days to beC
Bound each to each by natural pietyC
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There was a time when meadow grove and streamD
The earth and every common sightE
To me did seemD
Apparelled in celestial lightE
The glory and the freshness of a dreamD
It is not now as it hath been of yoreF
Turn wheresoe'er I mayG
By night or dayG
The things which I have seen I now can see no moreF
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The Rainbow comes and goesH
And lovely is the RoseH
The Moon doth with delightE
Look round her when the heavens are bareI
Waters on a starry nightE
Are beautiful and fairI
The sunshine is a glorious birthJ
But yet I know where'er I goK
That there hath past away a glory from the earthJ
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Now while the birds thus sing a joyous songL
And while the young lambs boundM
As to the tabor's soundM
To me alone there came a thought of griefN
A timely utterance gave that thought reliefN
And I again am strongL
The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steepO
No more shall grief of mine the season wrongL
I hear the Echoes through the mountains throngL
The Winds come to me from the fields of sleepO
And all the earth is gayG
Land and seaC
Give themselves up to jollityM
And with the heart of MayG
Doth every Beast keep holidayG
Thou Child of JoyP
Shout round me let me hear thy shouts thou happy Shepherd boyP
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IVN
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Ye blesse d Creatures I have heard the callQ
Ye to each other make I seeC
The heavens laugh with you in your jubileeC
My heart is at your festivalR
My head hath its coronalR
The fulness of your bliss I feel I feel it allR
Oh evil day if I were sullenS
While the Earth herself is adorningT
This sweet May morningT
And the Children are cullingT
On every sideM
In a thousand valleys far and wideM
Fresh flowers while the sun shines warmU
And the Babe leaps up on his Mother's armV
I hear I hear with joy I hearW
But there's a Tree of many oneS
A single Field which I have looked uponX
Both of them speak of something that is goneY
The Pansy at my feetM
Doth the same tale repeatM
Whither is fled the visionary gleamD
Where is it now the glory and the dreamD
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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgettingT
The Soul that rises with us our life's StarZ
Hath had elsewhere its settingT
And cometh from afarZ
Not in entire forgetfulnessC
And not in utter nakednessC
But trailing clouds of glory do we comeA2
From God who is our homeB2
Heaven lies about us in our infancyC
Shades of the prison house begin to closeC
Upon the growing BoyP
But He beholds the light and whence it flowsC
He sees it in his joyP
The Youth who daily farther from the eastM
Must travel still is Nature's PriestM
And by the vision splendidM
Is on his way attendedM
At length the Man perceives it die awayG
And fade into the light of common dayG
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Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her ownC2
Yearnings she hath in her own natural kindM
And even with something of a Mother's mindM
And no unworthy aimD2
The homely Nurse doth all she canB
To make her Foster child her Inmate ManB
Forget the glories he hath knownC2
And that imperial palace whence he cameD2
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Behold the Child among his new born blissesC
A six years' Darling of a pigmy sizeC
See where 'mid work of his own hand he liesC
Fretted by sallies of his mother's kissesC
With light upon him from his father's eyesC
See at his feet some little plan or chartM
Some fragment from his dream of human lifeN
Shaped by himself with newly learned artM
A wedding or a festivalR
A mourning or a funeralR
And this hath now his heartM
And unto this he frames his songL
Then will he fit his tongueE2
To dialogues of business love or strifeN
But it will not be longL
Ere this be thrown asideM
And with new joy and prideM
The little Actor cons another partM
Filling from time to time his humorous stageF2
With all the Persons down to palsied AgeF2
That Life brings with her in her equipageF2
As if his whole vocationS
Were endless imitationS
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Thou whose exterior semblance doth belieN
Thy Soul's immensityM
Thou best Philosopher who yet dost keepO
Thy heritage thou Eye among the blindM
That deaf and silent read'st the eternal deepO
Haunted for ever by the eternal mindM
Might Prophet Seer blestM
On whom those truths do restM
Which we are toiling all our lives to findM
In darkness lost the darkness of the graveN
Thou over whom thy ImmortalityM
Broods like the Day a Master o'er a SlaveN
A Presence which is not to be put byN
To whom the graveN
Is but a lonely bed without the sense or sightM
Of day or the warm lightM
A place of thought where we in waiting lieN
Thou little Child yet glorious in the mightM
Of heaven born freedom on thy being's heightM
Why with such earnest pains dost thou provokeG2
The years to bring the inevitable yokeG2
Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strifeN
Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freightM
And custom lie upon thee with a weightM
Heavy as frost and deep almost as lifeN
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O joy that in our embersC
Is something that doth liveN
That nature yet remembersC
What was so fugitiveN
The thought of our past years in me doth breedM
Perpetual benediction not indeedM
For that which is most worthy to be blestM
Delight and liberty the simple creedM
Of Childhood whether busy or at restM
With new fledged hope still fluttering in his breastM
Not for these I raiseC
The song of thanks and praiseC
But for those obstinate questioningsC
Of sense and outward thingsC
Fallings from us vanishingsC
Blank misgivings of a CreatureH2
Moving about in worlds not realisedM
High instincts before which our mortal NatureH2
Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprisedM
But for those first affectionsC
Those shadowy recollectionsC
Which be they what they mayG
Are yet the fountain light of all our dayG
Are yet a master light of all our seeingT
Uphold us cherish and have power to makeI2
Our noisy years seem moments in the beingT
Of the eternal Silence truths that wakeI2
To perish neverH2
Which neither listlessness nor mad endeavorH2
Nor Man nor BoyP
Nor all that is at enmity with joyP
Can utterly abolish or destroyP
Hence in a season of calm weatherH2
Though inland far we beM
Our Souls have sight of that immortal seaM
Which brought us hitherH2
Can in a moment travel thitherH2
And see the Children sport upon the shoreH2
And hear the mighty waters rolling evermoreH2
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Then sing ye Birds sing sing a joyous songL
And yet the young Lambs boundM
As to the tabor's soundM
We in thought will join your throngL
Ye that pipe and ye that playG
Ye that through your hearts to dayG
Feel the gladness of the MayG
What though the radiance which was once so brightM
Be now for ever taken from my sightM
Though nothing can bring back the hourH2
Of splendour in the grass of glory in the flowerH2
We will grieve not rather findM
Strength in what remains behindM
In the primal sympathyM
Which having been must ever beM
In the soothing thoughts that springT
Out of human sufferingT
In the faith that looks through deathJ2
In years that bring the philosophic mindM
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And O ye Fountains Meadows Hills and GrovesC
Forebode not any severing of our lovesC
Yet in my heart of hearts I feel your mightM
I only have relinquished one delightM
To live beneath your more habitual swayG
I love the Brooks which down their channels fretM
Even more than when I tripped lightly as theyG
The innocent brightness of a new born DayG
Is lovely yetM
The Clouds that gather round the setting sunS
Do take a sober colouring from an eyeN
That hath kept watch o'er man's mortalityM
Another race hath been and other palms are wonS
Thanks to the human heart by which we liveN
Thanks to its tenderness its joys and fearsC
To me the meanest flower that blows can giveN
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tearsC

William Wordsworth



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