The Wishing Gate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EEAFFA GGHIIH JJKAAK LLMNNM GGBOPB QQRLSR FTULLU VVWVVW XXFBBG YYKVVK ZZLAAL A2A2BB2B2C2| In the vale of Grasmere by the side of an old highway | A |
| leading to Ambleside is a gate which from time out of | B |
| mind has been called the Wishing gate from a belief that | C |
| wishes formed or indulged there have a favorable issue | D |
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| HOPE rules a land forever green | E |
| All powers that serve the bright eyed Queen | E |
| Are confident and gay | A |
| Clouds at her bidding disappear | F |
| Points she to aught the bliss draws near | F |
| And Fancy smooths the way | A |
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| Not such the land of Wishes there | G |
| Dwell fruitless day dreams lawless prayer | G |
| And thoughts with things at strife | H |
| Yet how forlorn should ye depart | I |
| Ye superstitions of the heart | I |
| How poor were human life | H |
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| When magic lore abjured its might | J |
| Ye did not forfeit one dear right | J |
| One tender claim abate | K |
| Witness this symbol of your sway | A |
| Surnving near the public way | A |
| The rustic Wishing gate | K |
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| Inquire not if the faery race | L |
| Shed kindly influence on the place | L |
| Ere northward they retired | M |
| If here a warrior left a spell | N |
| Panting for glory as he fell | N |
| Or here a saint expired | M |
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| Enough that all arouud is fair | G |
| Composed with Nature's finest care | G |
| And in her fondest love | B |
| Peace to embosom and content | O |
| To overawe the turbulent | P |
| The selfish to reprove | B |
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| Yea even the Stranger from afar | Q |
| Reclining on this moss grown bar | Q |
| Unknowing and unknown | R |
| The infection of the ground partakes | L |
| Longing for his Beloved who maker | S |
| All happiness her own | R |
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| Then why should conscious Spirits fear | F |
| The mystic stirrings that are here | T |
| The ancient faith disclaim | U |
| The local Genius ne'er befriends | L |
| Desires whose course in folly ends | L |
| Whose just reward is shame | U |
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| Smile if thou wilt but not in scorn | V |
| If some by ceaseless pains outworn | V |
| Here crave an easier lot | W |
| If some have thirsted to renew | V |
| A broken vow or bind a true | V |
| With firmer holier knot | W |
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| And not in vain when thoughts are cast | X |
| Upon the irrevocable past | X |
| Some Penitent sincere | F |
| May for a worthier future sigh | B |
| While trickles from his downcast eye | B |
| No unavailing tear | G |
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| The Worldling pining to be freed | Y |
| From turmoil who would turn or speed | Y |
| The current of his fate | K |
| Might stop before this favored scene | V |
| At Nature's call nor blush to lean | V |
| Upon the Wishing gate | K |
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| The Sage who feels how blind how weak | Z |
| Is man though loth such help to seek | Z |
| Yet passing here might pause | L |
| And thirst for insight to allay | A |
| Misgiving while the crimson day | A |
| In quietness withdraws | L |
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| Or when the church clock's knell profound | A2 |
| To Time's first step across the bound | A2 |
| Of midnight makes reply | B |
| Time pressing on with starry crest | B2 |
| To filial sleep upon the breast | B2 |
| Of dread eternity | C2 |
William Wordsworth
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