To A Highland Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCAADDEEAAFFGGAAAAHH I JJKKLMAANNOOAANNNNPP QQAAA RRSSNNTTUVAATTT NNNNNNBBAAAAAAWWWAt Inversneyde upon Loch Lomond | A |
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Sweet Highland Girl a very shower | B |
Of beauty is thy earthly dower | C |
Twice seven consenting years have shed | A |
Their utmost bounty on thy head | A |
And these grey rocks that household lawn | D |
Those trees a veil just half withdrawn | D |
This fall of water that doth make | E |
A murmur near the silent lake | E |
This little bay a quiet road | A |
That holds in shelter thy Abode | A |
In truth together do ye seem | F |
Like something fashioned in a dream | F |
Such Forms as from their covert peep | G |
When earthly cares are laid asleep | G |
But O fair Creature in the light | A |
Of common day so heavenly bright | A |
I bless Thee Vision as thou art | A |
I bless thee with a human heart | A |
God shield thee to thy latest years | H |
Thee neither know I nor thy peers | H |
And yet my eyes are filled with tears | I |
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With earnest feeling I shall pray | J |
For thee when I am far away | J |
For never saw I mien or face | K |
In which more plainly I could trace | K |
Benignity and home bred sense | L |
Ripening in perfect innocence | M |
Here scattered like a random seed | A |
Remote from men Thou dost not need | A |
The embarrassed look of shy distress | N |
And maidenly shamefacedness | N |
Thou wear'st upon thy forehead clear | O |
The freedom of a Mountaineer | O |
A face with gladness overspread | A |
Soft smiles by human kindness bred | A |
And seemliness complete that sways | N |
Thy courtesies about thee plays | N |
With no restraint but such as springs | N |
From quick and eager visitings | N |
Of thoughts that lie beyond the reach | P |
Of thy few words of English speech | P |
A bondage sweetly brooked a strife | Q |
That gives thy gestures grace and life | Q |
So have I not unmoved in mind | A |
Seen birds of tempest loving kind | A |
Thus beating up against the wind | A |
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What hand but would a garland cull | R |
For thee who art so beautiful | R |
O happy pleasure here to dwell | S |
Beside thee in some heathy dell | S |
Adopt your homely ways and dress | N |
A Shepherd thou a Shepherdess | N |
But I could frame a wish for thee | T |
More like a grave reality | T |
Thou art to me but as a wave | U |
Of the wild sea and I would have | V |
Some claim upon thee if I could | A |
Though but of common neighbourhood | A |
What joy to hear thee and to see | T |
Thy elder Brother I would be | T |
Thy Father anything to thee | T |
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Now thanks to Heaven that of its grace | N |
Hath led me to this lonely place | N |
Joy have I had and going hence | N |
I bear away my recompense | N |
In spots like these it is we prize | N |
Our Memory feel that she hath eyes | N |
Then why should I be loth to stir | B |
I feel this place was made for her | B |
To give new pleasure like the past | A |
Continued long as life shall last | A |
Nor am I loth though pleased at heart | A |
Sweet Highland Girl from thee to part | A |
For I methinks till I grow old | A |
As fair before me shall behold | A |
As I do now the cabin small | W |
The lake the bay the waterfall | W |
And thee the spirit of them all | W |
William Wordsworth
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