The French Revolution As It Appeared To Enthusiasts At Its Commencement Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNBJOPBQ RBSBTUBBVBWBXYZA2UBB B2| Oh pleasant exercise of hope and joy | A |
| For mighty were the auxiliars which then stood | B |
| Upon our side we who were strong in love | C |
| Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive | D |
| But to be young was very heaven Oh times | E |
| In which the meagre stale forbidding ways | F |
| Of custom law and statute took at once | G |
| The attraction of a country in romance | H |
| When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights | I |
| When most intent on making of herself | J |
| A prime Enchantress to assist the work | K |
| Which then was going forward in her name | L |
| Not favoured spots alone but the whole earth | M |
| The beauty wore of promise that which sets | N |
| As at some moment might not be unfelt | B |
| Among the bowers of paradise itself | J |
| The budding rose above the rose full blown | O |
| What temper at the prospect did not wake | P |
| To happiness unthought of The inert | B |
| Were roused and lively natures rapt away | Q |
| They who had fed their childhood upon dreams | R |
| The playfellows of fancy who had made | B |
| All powers of swiftness subtilty and strength | S |
| Their ministers who in lordly wise had stirred | B |
| Among the grandest objects of the sense | T |
| And dealt with whatsoever they found there | U |
| As if they had within some lurking right | B |
| To wield it they too who of gentle mood | B |
| Had watched all gentle motions and to these | V |
| Had fitted their own thoughts schemers more wild | B |
| And in the region of their peaceful selves | W |
| Now was it that both found the meek and lofty | B |
| Did both find helpers to their heart's desire | X |
| And stuff at hand plastic as they could wish | Y |
| Wcre called upon to exercise their skill | Z |
| Not in Utopia subterranean fields | A2 |
| Or some secreted island Heaven knows where | U |
| But in the very world which is the world | B |
| Of all of us the place where in the end | B |
| We find our happiness or not at all | B2 |
William Wordsworth
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