Resolution And Independence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCCC CDCDDEE FGHGGII AJAJJKK LMLMMII NOOOOPP GOGOOJJ JEJEEJJ LJIJJQQ OROSROO JOJOOPP OTOTTJJ UVUVVJJ OWOWWJJ XYXFFJJ OZOZZOO JOJOOVV OOOOOUU JIJIIOO OOOOOFFThere was a roaring in the wind all night | A |
The rain came heavily and fell in floods | B |
But now the sun is rising calm and bright | A |
The birds are singing in the distant woods | C |
Over his own sweet voice the Stock dove broods | C |
The Jay makes answer as the Magpie chatters | C |
And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters | C |
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All things that love the sun are out of doors | C |
The sky rejoices in the morning's birth | D |
The grass is bright with rain drops on the moors | C |
The hare is running races in her mirth | D |
And with her feet she from the plashy earth | D |
Raises a mist that glittering in the sun | E |
Runs with her all the way wherever she doth run | E |
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I was a Traveller then upon the moor | F |
I saw the hare that raced about with joy | G |
I heard the woods and distant waters roar | H |
Or heard them not as happy as a boy | G |
The pleasant season did my heart employ | G |
My old remembrances went from me wholly | I |
And all the ways of men so vain and melancholy | I |
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But as it sometimes chanceth from the might | A |
Of joy in minds that can no further go | J |
As high as we have mounted in delight | A |
In our dejection do we sink as low | J |
To me that morning did it happen so | J |
And fears and fancies thick upon me came | K |
Dim sadness and blind thoughts I knew not nor could name | K |
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I heard the sky lark warbling in the sky | L |
And I bethought me of the playful hare | M |
Even such a happy Child of earth am I | L |
Even as these blissful creatures do I fare | M |
Far from the world I walk and from all care | M |
But there may come another day to me | I |
Solitude pain of heart distress and poverty | I |
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My whole life I have lived in pleasant thought | N |
As if life's business were a summer mood | O |
As if all needful things would come unsought | O |
To genial faith still rich in genial good | O |
But how can He expect that others should | O |
Build for him sow for him and at his call | P |
Love him who for himself will take no heed at all | P |
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I thought of Chatterton the marvellous Boy | G |
The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride | O |
Of Him who walked in glory and in joy | G |
Following his plough along the mountain side | O |
By our own spirits are we deified | O |
We Poets in our youth begin in gladness | J |
But thereof come in the end despondency and madness | J |
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Now whether it were by peculiar grace | J |
A leading from above a something given | E |
Yet it befell that in this lonely place | J |
When I with these untoward thoughts had striven | E |
Beside a pool bare to the eye of heaven | E |
I saw a Man before me unawares | J |
The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs | J |
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As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie | L |
Couched on the bald top of an eminence | J |
Wonder to all who do the same espy | I |
By what means it could thither come and whence | J |
So that it seems a thing endued with sense | J |
Like a sea beast crawled forth that on a shelf | Q |
Of rock or sand reposeth there to sun itself | Q |
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Such seemed this Man not all alive nor dead | O |
Nor all asleep in his extreme old age | R |
His body was bent double feet and head | O |
Coming together in life's pilgrimage | S |
As if some dire constraint of pain or rage | R |
Of sickness felt by him in times long past | O |
A more than human weight upon his frame had cast | O |
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Himself he propped limbs body and pale face | J |
Upon a long grey staff of shaven wood | O |
And still as I drew near with gentle pace | J |
Upon the margin of that moorish flood | O |
Motionless as a cloud the old Man stood | O |
That heareth not the loud winds when they call | P |
And moveth all together if it move at all | P |
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At length himself unsettling he the pond | O |
Stirred with his staff and fixedly did look | T |
Upon the muddy water which he conned | O |
As if he had been reading in a book | T |
And now a stranger's privilege I took | T |
And drawing to his side to him did say | J |
This morning gives us promise of a glorious day | J |
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A gentle answer did the old Man make | U |
In courteous speech which forth he slowly drew | V |
And him with further words I thus bespake | U |
What occupation do you there pursue | V |
This is a lonesome place for one like you | V |
Ere he replied a flash of mild surprise | J |
Broke from the sable orbs of his yet vivid eyes | J |
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His words came feebly from a feeble chest | O |
But each in solemn order followed each | W |
With something of a lofty utterance drest | O |
Choice word and measured phrase above the reach | W |
Of ordinary men a stately speech | W |
Such as grave Livers do in Scotland use | J |
Religious men who give to God and man their dues | J |
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He told that to these waters he had come | X |
To gather leeches being old and poor | Y |
Employment hazardous and wearisome | X |
And he had many hardships to endure | F |
From pond to pond he roamed from moor to moor | F |
Housing with God's good help by choice or chance | J |
And in this way he gained an honest maintenance | J |
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The old Man still stood talking by my side | O |
But now his voice to me was like a stream | Z |
Scarce heard nor word from word could I divide | O |
And the whole body of the Man did seem | Z |
Like one whom I had met with in a dream | Z |
Or like a man from some far region sent | O |
To give me human strength by apt admonishment | O |
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My former thoughts returned the fear that kills | J |
And hope that is unwilling to be fed | O |
Cold pain and labour and all fleshly ills | J |
And mighty Poets in their misery dead | O |
Perplexed and longing to be comforted | O |
My question eagerly did I renew | V |
How is it that you live and what is it you do | V |
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He with a smile did then his words repeat | O |
And said that gathering leeches far and wide | O |
He travelled stirring thus about his feet | O |
The waters of the pools where they abide | O |
Once I could meet with them on every side | O |
But they have dwindled long by slow decay | U |
Yet still I persevere and find them where I may | U |
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While he was talking thus the lonely place | J |
The old Man's shape and speech all troubled me | I |
In my mind's eye I seemed to see him pace | J |
About the weary moors continually | I |
Wandering about alone and silently | I |
While I these thoughts within myself pursued | O |
He having made a pause the same discourse renewed | O |
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And soon with this he other matter blended | O |
Cheerfully uttered with demeanour kind | O |
But stately in the main and when he ended | O |
I could have laughed myself to scorn to find | O |
In that decrepit Man so firm a mind | O |
God said I be my help and stay secure | F |
I'll think of the Leech gatherer on the lonely moor | F |
William Wordsworth
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