The Wishing Gate Destroyed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIJ KLMNNM OPMQQM RRMHHM SSTUUT VWXYYJ ZZA2B2B2A2 C2C2D2NND2 E2E2F2G2G2F2| 'Tis gone with old belief and dream | A |
| That round it clung and tempting scheme | A |
| Released from fear and doubt | B |
| And the bright landscape too must lie | C |
| By this blank wall from every eye | C |
| Relentlessly shut out | B |
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| Bear witness ye who seldom passed | D |
| That opening but a look ye cast | D |
| Upon the lake below | E |
| What spirit stirring power it gained | F |
| From faith which here was entertained | F |
| Though reason might say no | E |
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| Blest is that ground where o'er the springs | G |
| Of history Glory claps her wings | G |
| Fame sheds the exulting tear | H |
| Yet earth is wide and many a nook | I |
| Unheard of is like this a book | I |
| For modest meanings dear | J |
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| It was in sooth a happy thought | K |
| That grafted on so fair a spot | L |
| So confident a token | M |
| Of coming good the charm is fled | N |
| Indulgent centuries spun a thread | N |
| Which one harsh day has broken | M |
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| Alas for him who gave the word | O |
| Could he no sympathy afford | P |
| Derived from earth or heaven | M |
| To hearts so oft by hope betrayed | Q |
| Their very wishes wanted aid | Q |
| Which here was freely given | M |
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| Where for the love lorn maiden's wound | R |
| Will now so readily be found | R |
| A balm of expectation | M |
| Anxious for far off children where | H |
| Shall mothers breathe a like sweet air | H |
| Of home felt consolation | M |
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| And not unfelt will prove the loss | S |
| 'Mid trivial care and petty cross | S |
| And each day's shallow grief | T |
| Though the most easily beguiled | U |
| Were oft among the first that smiled | U |
| At their own fond belief | T |
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| If still the reckless change we mourn | V |
| A reconciling thought may turn | W |
| To harm that might lurk here | X |
| Ere judgment prompted from within | Y |
| Fit aims with courage to begin | Y |
| And strength to persevere | J |
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| Not Fortune's slave is Man our state | Z |
| Enjoins while firm resolves await | Z |
| On wishes just and wise | A2 |
| That strenuous action follow both | B2 |
| And life be one perpetual growth | B2 |
| Of heaven ward enterprise | A2 |
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| So taught so trained we boldly face | C2 |
| All accidents of time and place | C2 |
| Whatever props may fail | D2 |
| Trust in that sovereign law can spread | N |
| New glory o'er the mountain's head | N |
| Fresh beauty through the vale | D2 |
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| That truth informing mind and heart | E2 |
| The simplest cottager may part | E2 |
| Ungrieved with charm and spell | F2 |
| And yet lost Wishing gate to thee | G2 |
| The voice of grateful memory | G2 |
| Shall bid a kind farewell | F2 |
William Wordsworth
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