'tis Said, That Some Have Died For Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEEDFF GHGHIJJI KLLLMNNM LOLOPQQP LRLRSTT ULRVLWXY| 'Tis said that some have died for love | A |
| And here and there a churchyard grave is found | B |
| In the cold north's unhallowed ground | B |
| Because the wretched man himself had slain | C |
| His love was such a grievous pain | C |
| And there is one whom I five years have known | D |
| He dwells alone | D |
| Upon Helvellyn's side | E |
| He loved the pretty Barbara died | E |
| And thus he makes his moan | D |
| Three years had Barbara in her grave been laid | F |
| When thus his moan he made | F |
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| 'Oh move thou Cottage from behind that oak | G |
| Or let the aged tree uprooted lie | H |
| That in some other way yon smoke | G |
| May mount into the sky | H |
| The clouds pass on they from the heavens depart | I |
| I look the sky is empty space | J |
| I know not what I trace | J |
| But when I cease to look my hand is on my heart | I |
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| 'Oh what a weight is in these shades Ye leaves | K |
| That murmur once so dear when will it cease | L |
| Your sound my heart of rest bereaves | L |
| It robs my heart of peace | L |
| Thou Thrush that singest loud and loud and free | M |
| Into yon row of willows flit | N |
| Upon that alder sit | N |
| Or sing another song or choose another tree | M |
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| 'Roll back sweet Rill back to thy mountain bounds | L |
| And there for ever be thy waters chained | O |
| For thou dost haunt the air with sounds | L |
| That cannot be sustained | O |
| If still beneath that pine tree's ragged bough | P |
| Headlong yon waterfall must come | Q |
| Oh let it then be dumb | Q |
| Be anything sweet Rill but that which thou art now | P |
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| 'Thou Eglantine so bright with sunny showers | L |
| Proud as a rainbow spanning half the vale | R |
| Thou one fair shrub oh shed thy flowers | L |
| And stir not in the gale | R |
| For thus to see thee nodding in the air | S |
| To see thy arch thus stretch and bend | T |
| Thus rise and thus descend | T |
| Disturbs me till the sight is more than I can dear ' | - |
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| The Man who makes this feverish complaint | U |
| Is one of giant stature who could dance | L |
| Equipped from head to foot in iron mail | R |
| Ah gentle Love if ever thought was thine | V |
| To store up kindred hours for me thy face | L |
| Turn from me gentle Love nor let me walk | W |
| Within the sound of Emma's voice nor know | X |
| Such happiness as I have known to day | Y |
William Wordsworth
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