The Widow On Windermere Side Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEBFFBGHGHGG A IJKIILJIMNJMJN A OPPQQPRQJSSJSJ| I | A |
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| How beautiful when up a lofty height | B |
| Honour ascends among the humblest poor | C |
| And feeling sinks as deep See there the door | D |
| Of One a Widow left beneath a weight | E |
| Of blameless debt On evil Fortune's spite | B |
| She wasted no complaint but strove to make | F |
| A just repayment both for conscience sake | F |
| And that herself and hers should stand upright | B |
| In the world's eye Her work when daylight failed | G |
| Paused not and through the depth of night she kept | H |
| Such earnest vigils that belief prevailed | G |
| With some the noble Creature never slept | H |
| But one by one the hand of death assailed | G |
| Her children from her inmost heart bewept | G |
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| II | A |
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| The Mother mourned nor ceased her tears to flow | I |
| Till a winter's noonday placed her buried Son | J |
| Before her eyes last child of many gone | K |
| His raiment of angelic white and lo | I |
| His very feet bright as the dazzling snow | I |
| Which they are touching yea far brighter even | L |
| As that which comes or seems to come from heaven | J |
| Surpasses aught these elements can show | I |
| Much she rejoiced trusting that from that hour | M |
| Whate'er befell she could not grieve or pine | N |
| But the Transfigured in and out of season | J |
| Appeared and spiritual presence gained a power | M |
| Over material forms that mastered reason | J |
| Oh gracious Heaven in pity make her thine | N |
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| III | A |
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| But why that prayer as if to her could come | O |
| No good but by the way that leads to bliss | P |
| Through Death so judging we should judge amiss | P |
| Since reason failed want is her threatened doom | Q |
| Yet frequent transports mitigate the gloom | Q |
| Nor of those maniacs is she one that kiss | P |
| The air or laugh upon a precipice | R |
| No passing through strange sufferings toward the tomb | Q |
| She smiles as if a martyr's crown were won | J |
| Oft when light breaks through clouds or waving trees | S |
| With outspread arms and fallen upon her knees | S |
| The Mother hails in her descending Son | J |
| An Angel and in earthly ecstasies | S |
| Her own angelic glory seems begun | J |
William Wordsworth
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