Ode To Lycoris. May 1817 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDEEFGGFHHIIJJ A KLKLMMNOPQQPRRSSTU A VWWWAAXXWYYWWWFFZZ| I | A |
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| AN age hath been when Earth was proud | B |
| Of lustre too intense | C |
| To be sustained and Mortals bowed | B |
| The front in self defence | C |
| Who 'then' if Dian's crescent gleamed | D |
| Or Cupid's sparkling arrow streamed | D |
| While on the wing the Urchin played | E |
| Could fearlessly approach the shade | E |
| Enough for one soft vernal day | F |
| If I a bard of ebbing time | G |
| And nurtured in a fickle clime | G |
| May haunt this horned bay | F |
| Whose amorous water multiplies | H |
| The flitting halcyon's vivid dyes | H |
| And smooths her liquid breast to show | I |
| These swan like specks of mountain snow | I |
| White as the pair that slid along the plains | J |
| Of heaven when Venus held the reins | J |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| In youth we love the darksome lawn | K |
| Brushed by the owlet's wing | L |
| Then Twilight is preferred to Dawn | K |
| And Autumn to the Spring | L |
| Sad fancies do we then affect | M |
| In luxury of disrespect | M |
| To our own prodigal excess | N |
| Of too familiar happiness | O |
| Lycoris if such name befit | P |
| Thee thee my life's celestial sign | Q |
| When Nature marks the year's decline | Q |
| Be ours to welcome it | P |
| Pleased with the harvest hope that runs | R |
| Before the path of milder suns | R |
| Pleased while the sylvan world displays | S |
| Its ripeness to the feeding gaze | S |
| Pleased when the sullen winds resound the knell | T |
| Of the resplendent miracle | U |
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| III | A |
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| But something whispers to my heart | V |
| That as we downward tend | W |
| Lycoris life requires an 'art' | W |
| To which our souls must bend | W |
| A skill to balance and supply | A |
| And ere the flowing fount be dry | A |
| As soon it must a sense to sip | X |
| Or drink with no fastidious lip | X |
| Then welcome above all the Guest | W |
| Whose smiles diffused o'er land and sea | Y |
| Seem to recall the Deity | Y |
| Of youth into the breast | W |
| May pensive Autumn ne'er present | W |
| A claim to her disparagement | W |
| While blossoms and the budding spray | F |
| Inspire us in our own decay | F |
| Still as we nearer draw to life's dark goal | Z |
| Be hopeful Spring the favourite of the Soul | Z |
William Wordsworth
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