The Pass Of Kirkstone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEEFFGHHGIIJKLMNN A OPQPRSTTUVVUWWXXAAYY A ZA2ZA2B2B2C2C2B2D2E2 B2F2G2H2H2B2B2I2I2 A B2J2B2J2K2L2AAB2AAB2 I2I2M2M2N2N2O2O2B2B2 B2B2L2L2I | A |
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Within the mind strong fancies work | B |
A deep delight the bosom thrills | C |
Oft as I pass along the fork | D |
Of these fraternal hills | C |
Where save the rugged road we find | E |
No appanage of human kind | E |
Nor hint of man if stone or rock | F |
Seem not his handywork to mock | F |
By something cognizably shaped | G |
Mockery or model roughly hewn | H |
And left as if by earthquake strewn | H |
Or from the Flood escaped | G |
Altars for Druid service fit | I |
But where no fire was ever lit | I |
Unless the glow worm to the skies | J |
Thence offer nightly sacrifice | K |
Wrinkled Egyptian monument | L |
Green moss grown tower or hoary tent | M |
Tents of a camp that never shall be razed | N |
On which four thousand years have gazed | N |
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II | A |
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Ye plough shares sparkling on the slopes | O |
Ye snow white lambs that trip | P |
Imprisoned 'mid the formal props | Q |
Of restless ownership | P |
Ye trees that may to morrow fall | R |
To feed the insatiate Prodigal | S |
Lawns houses chattels groves and fields | T |
All that the fertile valley shields | T |
Wages of folly baits of crime | U |
Of life's uneasy game the stake | V |
Playthings that keep the eyes awake | V |
Of drowsy dotard Time | U |
O care O guilt O vales and plains | W |
Here 'mid his own unvexed domains | W |
A Genius dwells that can subdue | X |
At once all memory of You | X |
Most potent when mists veil the sky | A |
Mists that distort and magnify | A |
While the coarse rushes to the sweeping breeze | Y |
Sigh forth their ancient melodies | Y |
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III | A |
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List to those shriller notes 'that' march | Z |
Perchance was on the blast | A2 |
When through this Height's inverted arch | Z |
Rome's earliest legion passed | A2 |
They saw adventurously impelled | B2 |
And older eyes than theirs beheld | B2 |
This block and yon whose church like frame | C2 |
Gives to this savage Pass its name | C2 |
Aspiring Road that lov'st to hide | B2 |
Thy daring in a vapoury bourn | D2 |
Not seldom may the hour return | E2 |
When thou shalt be my guide | B2 |
And I as all men may find cause | F2 |
When life is at a weary pause | G2 |
And they have panted up the hill | H2 |
Of duty with reluctant will | H2 |
Be thankful even though tired and faint | B2 |
For the rich bounties of constraint | B2 |
Whence oft invigorating transports flow | I2 |
That choice lacked courage to bestow | I2 |
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IV | A |
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My Soul was grateful for delight | B2 |
That wore a threatening brow | J2 |
A veil is lifted can she slight | B2 |
The scene that opens now | J2 |
Though habitation none appear | K2 |
The greenness tells man must be there | L2 |
The shelter that the perspective | A |
Is of the clime in which we live | A |
Where Toil pursues his daily round | B2 |
Where Pity sheds sweet tears and Love | A |
In woodbine bower or birchen grove | A |
Inflicts his tender wound | B2 |
Who comes not hither ne'er shall know | I2 |
How beautiful the world below | I2 |
Nor can he guess how lightly leaps | M2 |
The brook adown the rocky steeps | M2 |
Farewell thou desolate Domain | N2 |
Hope pointing to the cultured plain | N2 |
Carols like a shepherd boy | O2 |
And who is she Can that be Joy | O2 |
Who with a sunbeam for her guide | B2 |
Smoothly skims the meadows wide | B2 |
While Faith from yonder opening cloud | B2 |
To hill and vale proclaims aloud | B2 |
Whate'er the weak may dread the wicked dare | L2 |
Thy lot O Man is good thy portion fair | L2 |
William Wordsworth
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