To A Highland Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCAADDEEAAFFGGAAAAHH I JJKKLMAANNOOAANNNNPP QQAAA RRSSNNTTUVAATTT NNNNNNBBAAAAAAWWW| At 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| Those trees a veil just half withdrawn | D |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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