The Fountain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA B CDCD EFEF GHGH IJI KLKL MNMN OPOP QRMR OSOS TUTU VLVL WXWX YZYZ A2B2B C2D2C2D2 E2 E2 KF2KF2 G2IG2I| A | |
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| A Conversation | B |
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| We talked with open heart and tongue | C |
| Affectionate and true | D |
| A pair of friends though I was young | C |
| And Matthew seventy two | D |
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| We lay beneath a spreading oak | E |
| Beside a mossy seat | F |
| And from the turf a fountain broke | E |
| And gurgled at our feet | F |
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| Now Matthew ' said I let us match | G |
| This water's pleasant tune | H |
| With some old border song or catch | G |
| That suits a summer's noon | H |
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| Or of the church clock and the chimes | I |
| Sing here beneath the shade | J |
| That half mad thing of witty rhymes | I |
| Which you last April made ' | - |
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| In silence Matthew lay and eyed | K |
| The spring beneath the tree | L |
| And thus the dear old man replied | K |
| The grey haired man of glee | L |
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| No check no stay this streamlet fears | M |
| How merrily it goes | N |
| 'Twill murmur on a thousand years | M |
| And flow as now it flows | N |
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| And here on this delightful day | O |
| I cannot choose but think | P |
| How oft a vigorous man I lay | O |
| Beside this fountain's brink | P |
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| My eyes are dim with childish tears | Q |
| My heart is idly stirred | R |
| For the same sound is in my ears | M |
| Which in those days I heard | R |
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| Thus fares it still in our decay | O |
| And yet the wiser mind | S |
| Mourns less for what Age takes away | O |
| Than what it leaves behind | S |
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| The blackbird amid leafy trees | T |
| The lark above the hill | U |
| Let loose their carols when they please | T |
| Are quiet when they will | U |
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| With Nature never do they wage | V |
| A foolish strife they see | L |
| A happy youth and their old age | V |
| Is beautiful and free | L |
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| But we are pressed by heavy laws | W |
| And often glad no more | X |
| We wear a face of joy because | W |
| We have been glad of yore | X |
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| If there be one who need bemoan | Y |
| His kindred laid in earth | Z |
| The household hearts that were his own | Y |
| It is the man of mirth | Z |
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| My days my friend are almost gone | A2 |
| My life has been approved | B2 |
| And many love me but by none | B |
| Am I enough beloved ' | - |
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| Now both himself and me he wrongs | C2 |
| The man who thus complains | D2 |
| I live and sing my idle songs | C2 |
| Upon these happy plains | D2 |
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| And Matthew for thy children dead | E2 |
| I'll be a son to thee ' | - |
| At this he grasped my hand and said | E2 |
| Alas that cannot be ' | - |
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| We rose up from the fountain side | K |
| And down the smooth descent | F2 |
| Of the green sheep track did we glide | K |
| And through the wood we went | F2 |
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| And ere we came to Leonard's Rock | G2 |
| He sang those witty rhymes | I |
| About the crazy old church clock | G2 |
| And the bewildered chimes | I |
William Wordsworth
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