The Redbreast - Suggested In A Westmoreland Cottage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFGHIGGGGGJJK KGGLLL GGGMMGGMNNGGKKGGHIOO PPQQQRGGRSS TTIIUUGGGVVAAUUGGWWX XGHIY| Driven in by Autumn's sharpening air | A |
| From half stripped woods and pastures bare | A |
| Brisk Robin seeks a kindlier home | B |
| Not like a beggar is he come | C |
| But enters as a looked for guest | D |
| Confiding in his ruddy breast | D |
| As if it were a natural shield | E |
| Charged with a blazon on the field | E |
| Due to that good and pious deed | F |
| Of which we in the Ballad read | G |
| But pensive fancies putting by | H |
| And wild wood sorrows speedily | I |
| He plays the expert ventriloquist | G |
| And caught by glimpses now now missed | G |
| Puzzles the listener with a doubt | G |
| If the soft voice he throws about | G |
| Comes from within doors or without | G |
| Was ever such a sweet confusion | J |
| Sustained by delicate illusion | J |
| He's at your elbow to your feeling | K |
| The notes are from the floor or ceiling | K |
| And there's a riddle to be guessed | G |
| 'Till you have marked his heaving chest | G |
| And busy throat whose sink and swell | L |
| Betray the Elf that loves to dwell | L |
| In Robin's bosom as a chosen cell | L |
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| Heart pleased we smile upon the Bird | G |
| If seen and with like pleasure stirred | G |
| Commend him when he's only heard | G |
| But small and fugitive our gain | M |
| Compared with 'hers' who long hath lain | M |
| With languid limbs and patient head | G |
| Reposing on a lone sick bed | G |
| Where now she daily hears a strain | M |
| That cheats her of too busy cares | N |
| Eases her pain and helps her prayers | N |
| And who but this dear Bird beguiled | G |
| The fever of that pale faced Child | G |
| Now cooling with his passing wing | K |
| Her forehead like a breeze of Spring | K |
| Recalling now with descant soft | G |
| Shed round her pillow from aloft | G |
| Sweet thoughts of angels hovering nigh | H |
| And the invisible sympathy | I |
| Of Matthew Mark and Luke and John | O |
| Blessing the bed she lies upon | O |
| And sometimes just as listening ends | P |
| In slumber with the cadence blends | P |
| A dream of that low warbled hymn | Q |
| Which old folk fondly pleased to trim | Q |
| Lamps of faith now burning dim | Q |
| Say that the Cherubs carved in stone | R |
| When clouds gave way at dead of night | G |
| And the ancient church was filled with light | G |
| Used to sing in heavenly tone | R |
| Above and round the sacred places | S |
| They guard with winged baby faces | S |
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| Thrice happy Creature in all lands | T |
| Nurtured by hospitable hands | T |
| Free entrance to this cot has he | I |
| Entrance and exit both 'yet' free | I |
| And when the keen unruffled weather | U |
| That thus brings man and bird together | U |
| Shall with its pleasantness be past | G |
| And casement closed and door made fast | G |
| To keep at bay the howling blast | G |
| 'He' needs not fear the season's rage | V |
| For the whole house is Robin's cage | V |
| Whether the bird flit here or there | A |
| O'er table 'lilt' or perch on chair | A |
| Though some may frown and make a stir | U |
| To scare him as a trespasser | U |
| And he belike will flinch or start | G |
| Good friends he has to take his part | G |
| One chiefly who with voice and look | W |
| Pleads for him from the chimney nook | W |
| Where sits the Dame and wears away | X |
| Her long and vacant holiday | X |
| With images about her heart | G |
| Reflected from the years gone by | H |
| On human nature's second infancy | I |
| nbsp | Y |
William Wordsworth
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