Personal Talk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCDBEFGFGE A HIIHH IHJKLKJK A EMNEEMOEPQRSTQ AUVAAVUHWXXWXW| I | A |
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| I AM not One who much or oft delight | B |
| To season my fireside with personal talk | C |
| Of friends who live within an easy walk | C |
| Or neighbours daily weekly in my sight | B |
| And for my chance acquaintance ladies bright | B |
| Sons mothers maidens withering on the stalk | C |
| These all wear out of me like Forms with chalk | D |
| Painted on rich men's floors for one feast night | B |
| Better than such discourse doth silence long | E |
| Long barren silence square with my desire | F |
| To sit without emotion hope or aim | G |
| In the loved presence of my cottage fire | F |
| And listen to the flapping of the flame | G |
| Or kettle whispering its faint undersong | E |
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| II | A |
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| 'Yet life ' you say 'is life we have seen and see | H |
| And with a living pleasure we describe | I |
| And fits of sprightly malice do but bribe | I |
| The languid mind into activity | H |
| Sound sense and love itself and mirth and glee | H |
| Are fostered by the comment and the gibe ' | - |
| Even be it so yet still among your tribe | I |
| Our daily world's true Worldlings rank not me | H |
| Children are blest and powerful their world lies | J |
| More justly balanced partly at their feet | K |
| And part far from them sweetest melodies | L |
| Are those that are by distance made more sweet | K |
| Whose mind is but the mind of his own eyes | J |
| He is a Slave the meanest we can meet | K |
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| III | A |
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| Wings have we and as far as we can go | E |
| We may find pleasure wilderness and wood | M |
| Blank ocean and mere sky support that mood | N |
| Which with the lofty sanctifies the low | E |
| Dreams books are each a world and books we know | E |
| Are a substantial world both pure and good | M |
| Round these with tendrils strong as flesh and blood | O |
| Our pastime and our happiness will grow | E |
| There find I personal themes a plenteous store | P |
| Matter wherein right voluble I am | Q |
| To which I listen with a ready ear | R |
| Two shall be named pre eminently dear | S |
| The gentle Lady married to the Moor | T |
| And heavenly Una with her milk white Lamb | Q |
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| IV | - |
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| Nor can I not believe but that hereby | A |
| Great gains are mine for thus I live remote | U |
| From evil speaking rancour never sought | V |
| Comes to me not malignant truth or lie | A |
| Hence have I genial seasons hence have I | A |
| Smooth passions smooth discourse and joyous thought | V |
| And thus from day to day my little boat | U |
| Rocks in its harbour lodging peaceably | H |
| Blessings be with them and eternal praise | W |
| Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares | X |
| The Poets who on earth have made us heirs | X |
| Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays | W |
| Oh might my name be numbered among theirs | X |
| Then gladly would I end my mortal days | W |
William Wordsworth
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