The Pilgrim's Dream - Or, The Star And The Glow-worm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDDB EFGHHIIG JJKLLMMK NNOPPQRO SSTUUVVT WXYZZA2B2Y C2C2D2E2F2XXD2 G2G2H2I2I2J2J2K2 L2L2FM2M2N2O2FA Pilgrim when the summer day | A |
Had closed upon his weary way | A |
A lodging begged beneath a castle's roof | B |
But him the haughty Warder spurned | C |
And from the gate the Pilgrim turned | C |
To seek such covert as the field | D |
Or heath besprinkled copse might yield | D |
Or lofty wood shower proof | B |
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He paced along and pensively | E |
Halting beneath a shady tree | F |
Whose moss grown root might serve for couch or seat | G |
Fixed on a Star his upward eye | H |
Then from the tenant of the sky | H |
He turned and watched with kindred look | I |
A Glow worm in a dusky nook | I |
Apparent at his feet | G |
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The murmur of a neighbouring stream | J |
Induced a soft and slumbrous dream | J |
A pregnant dream within whose shadowy bounds | K |
He recognised the earth born Star | L |
And 'That' which glittered from afar | L |
And strange to witness from the frame | M |
Of the ethereal Orb there came | M |
Intelligible sounds | K |
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Much did it taunt the humble Light | N |
That now when day was fled and night | N |
Hushed the dark earth fast closing weary eyes | O |
A very reptile could presume | P |
To show her taper in the gloom | P |
As if in rivalship with One | Q |
Who sate a ruler on his throne | R |
Erected in the skies | O |
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Exalted Star the Worm replied | S |
Abate this unbecoming pride | S |
Or with a less uneasy lustre shine | T |
Thou shrink'st as momently thy rays | U |
Are mastered by the breathing haze | U |
While neither mist nor thickest cloud | V |
That shapes in heaven its murky shroud | V |
Hath power to injure mine | T |
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But not for this do I aspire | W |
To match the spark of local fire | X |
That at my will burns on the dewy lawn | Y |
With thy acknowledged glories No | Z |
Yet thus upbraided I may show | Z |
What favours do attend me here | A2 |
Till like thyself I disappear | B2 |
Before the purple dawn | Y |
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When this in modest guise was said | C2 |
Across the welkin seemed to spread | C2 |
A boding sound for aught but sleep unfit | D2 |
Hills quaked the rivers backward ran | E2 |
That Star so proud of late looked wan | F2 |
And reeled with visionary stir | X |
In the blue depth like Lucifer | X |
Cast headlong to the pit | D2 |
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Fire raged and when the spangled floor | G2 |
Of ancient ether was no more | G2 |
New heavens succeeded by the dream brought forth | H2 |
And all the happy Souls that rode | I2 |
Transfigured through that fresh abode | I2 |
Had heretofore in humble trust | J2 |
Shone meekly 'mid their native dust | J2 |
The Glow worms of the earth | K2 |
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This knowledge from an Angel's voice | L2 |
Proceeding made the heart rejoice | L2 |
Of Him who slept upon the open lea | F |
Waking at morn he murmured not | M2 |
And till life's journey closed the spot | M2 |
Was to the Pilgrim's soul endeared | N2 |
Where by that dream he had been cheered | O2 |
Beneath the shady tree | F |
William Wordsworth
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