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 OOOOOFF

There was a roaring in the wind all nightA
The rain came heavily and fell in floodsB
But now the sun is rising calm and brightA
The birds are singing in the distant woodsC
Over his own sweet voice the Stock dove broodsC
The Jay makes answer as the Magpie chattersC
And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of watersC
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All things that love the sun are out of doorsC
The sky rejoices in the morning's birthD
The grass is bright with rain drops on the moorsC
The hare is running races in her mirthD
And with her feet she from the plashy earthD
Raises a mist that glittering in the sunE
Runs with her all the way wherever she doth runE
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I was a Traveller then upon the moorF
I saw the hare that raced about with joyG
I heard the woods and distant waters roarH
Or heard them not as happy as a boyG
The pleasant season did my heart employG
My old remembrances went from me whollyI
And all the ways of men so vain and melancholyI
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But as it sometimes chanceth from the mightA
Of joy in minds that can no further goJ
As high as we have mounted in delightA
In our dejection do we sink as lowJ
To me that morning did it happen soJ
And fears and fancies thick upon me cameK
Dim sadness and blind thoughts I knew not nor could nameK
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I heard the sky lark warbling in the skyL
And I bethought me of the playful hareM
Even such a happy Child of earth am IL
Even as these blissful creatures do I fareM
Far from the world I walk and from all careM
But there may come another day to meI
Solitude pain of heart distress and povertyI
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My whole life I have lived in pleasant thoughtN
As if life's business were a summer moodO
As if all needful things would come unsoughtO
To genial faith still rich in genial goodO
But how can He expect that others shouldO
Build for him sow for him and at his callP
Love him who for himself will take no heed at allP
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I thought of Chatterton the marvellous BoyG
The sleepless Soul that perished in his prideO
Of Him who walked in glory and in joyG
Following his plough along the mountain sideO
By our own spirits are we deifiedO
We Poets in our youth begin in gladnessJ
But thereof come in the end despondency and madnessJ
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Now whether it were by peculiar graceJ
A leading from above a something givenE
Yet it befell that in this lonely placeJ
When I with these untoward thoughts had strivenE
Beside a pool bare to the eye of heavenE
I saw a Man before me unawaresJ
The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairsJ
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As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lieL
Couched on the bald top of an eminenceJ
Wonder to all who do the same espyI
By what means it could thither come and whenceJ
So that it seems a thing endued with senseJ
Like a sea beast crawled forth that on a shelfQ
Of rock or sand reposeth there to sun itselfQ
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Such seemed this Man not all alive nor deadO
Nor all asleep in his extreme old ageR
His body was bent double feet and headO
Coming together in life's pilgrimageS
As if some dire constraint of pain or rageR
Of sickness felt by him in times long pastO
A more than human weight upon his frame had castO
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Himself he propped limbs body and pale faceJ
Upon a long grey staff of shaven woodO
And still as I drew near with gentle paceJ
Upon the margin of that moorish floodO
Motionless as a cloud the old Man stoodO
That heareth not the loud winds when they callP
And moveth all together if it move at allP
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At length himself unsettling he the pondO
Stirred with his staff and fixedly did lookT
Upon the muddy water which he connedO
As if he had been reading in a bookT
And now a stranger's privilege I tookT
And drawing to his side to him did sayJ
This morning gives us promise of a glorious dayJ
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A gentle answer did the old Man makeU
In courteous speech which forth he slowly drewV
And him with further words I thus bespakeU
What occupation do you there pursueV
This is a lonesome place for one like youV
Ere he replied a flash of mild surpriseJ
Broke from the sable orbs of his yet vivid eyesJ
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His words came feebly from a feeble chestO
But each in solemn order followed eachW
With something of a lofty utterance drestO
Choice word and measured phrase above the reachW
Of ordinary men a stately speechW
Such as grave Livers do in Scotland useJ
Religious men who give to God and man their duesJ
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He told that to these waters he had comeX
To gather leeches being old and poorY
Employment hazardous and wearisomeX
And he had many hardships to endureF
From pond to pond he roamed from moor to moorF
Housing with God's good help by choice or chanceJ
And in this way he gained an honest maintenanceJ
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The old Man still stood talking by my sideO
But now his voice to me was like a streamZ
Scarce heard nor word from word could I divideO
And the whole body of the Man did seemZ
Like one whom I had met with in a dreamZ
Or like a man from some far region sentO
To give me human strength by apt admonishmentO
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My former thoughts returned the fear that killsJ
And hope that is unwilling to be fedO
Cold pain and labour and all fleshly illsJ
And mighty Poets in their misery deadO
Perplexed and longing to be comfortedO
My question eagerly did I renewV
How is it that you live and what is it you doV
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He with a smile did then his words repeatO
And said that gathering leeches far and wideO
He travelled stirring thus about his feetO
The waters of the pools where they abideO
Once I could meet with them on every sideO
But they have dwindled long by slow decayU
Yet still I persevere and find them where I mayU
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While he was talking thus the lonely placeJ
The old Man's shape and speech all troubled meI
In my mind's eye I seemed to see him paceJ
About the weary moors continuallyI
Wandering about alone and silentlyI
While I these thoughts within myself pursuedO
He having made a pause the same discourse renewedO
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And soon with this he other matter blendedO
Cheerfully uttered with demeanour kindO
But stately in the main and when he endedO
I could have laughed myself to scorn to findO
In that decrepit Man so firm a mindO
God said I be my help and stay secureF
I'll think of the Leech gatherer on the lonely moorF

William Wordsworth



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