Once I Could Hail Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFEEE GBHBII JEJEKK LEMEEE NBNBOO PKPKKK QRQRKK| Late late yestreen I saw the new moone | A |
| Wi' the auld moone in hir arme | B |
| 'Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence Percy's Reliques ' | C |
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| Once I could hail howe'er serene the sky | D |
| The Moon re entering her monthly round | E |
| No faculty yet given me to espy | F |
| The dusky Shape within her arms imbound | E |
| That thin memento of effulgence lost | E |
| Which some have named her Predecessor's ghost | E |
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| Young like the Crescent that above me shone | G |
| Nought I perceived within it dull or dim | B |
| All that appeared was suitable to One | H |
| Whose fancy had a thousand fields to skim | B |
| To expectations spreading with wild growth | I |
| And hope that kept with me her plighted troth | I |
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| I saw ambition quickening at the view | J |
| A silver boat launched on a boundless flood | E |
| A pearly crest like Dian's when it threw | J |
| Its brightest splendour round a leafy wood | E |
| But not a hint from under ground no sign | K |
| Fit for the glimmering brow of Proserpine | K |
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| Or was it Dian's self that seemed to move | L |
| Before me nothing blemished the fair sight | E |
| On her I looked whom jocund Fairies love | M |
| Cynthia who puts the 'little' stars to flight | E |
| And by that thinning magnifies the great | E |
| For exaltation of her sovereign state | E |
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| And when I learned to mark the spectral Shape | N |
| As each new Moon obeyed the call of Time | B |
| If gloom fell on me swift was my escape | N |
| Such happy privilege hath life's gay Prime | B |
| To see or not to see as best may please | O |
| A buoyant Spirit and a heart at ease | O |
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| Now dazzling Stranger when thou meet'st my glance | P |
| Thy dark Associate ever I discern | K |
| Emblem of thoughts too eager to advance | P |
| While I salute my joys thoughts sad or stern | K |
| Shades of past bliss or phantoms that to gain | K |
| Their fill of promised lustre wait in vain | K |
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| So changes mortal Life with fleeting years | Q |
| A mournful change should Reason fail to bring | R |
| The timely insight that can temper fears | Q |
| And from vicissitude remove its sting | R |
| While Faith aspires to seats in that domain | K |
| Where joys are perfect neither wax nor wane | K |
William Wordsworth
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