To A Highland Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCAADDEEAAFFGGAAAAHH I JJKKLMAANNOOAANNNNPP QQAAA RRSSNNTTUVAATTT NNNNNNBBAAAAAAWWW

At Inversneyde upon Loch LomondA
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Sweet Highland Girl a very showerB
Of beauty is thy earthly dowerC
Twice seven consenting years have shedA
Their utmost bounty on thy headA
And these grey rocks that household lawnD
Those trees a veil just half withdrawnD
This fall of water that doth makeE
A murmur near the silent lakeE
This little bay a quiet roadA
That holds in shelter thy AbodeA
In truth together do ye seemF
Like something fashioned in a dreamF
Such Forms as from their covert peepG
When earthly cares are laid asleepG
But O fair Creature in the lightA
Of common day so heavenly brightA
I bless Thee Vision as thou artA
I bless thee with a human heartA
God shield thee to thy latest yearsH
Thee neither know I nor thy peersH
And yet my eyes are filled with tearsI
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With earnest feeling I shall prayJ
For thee when I am far awayJ
For never saw I mien or faceK
In which more plainly I could traceK
Benignity and home bred senseL
Ripening in perfect innocenceM
Here scattered like a random seedA
Remote from men Thou dost not needA
The embarrassed look of shy distressN
And maidenly shamefacednessN
Thou wear'st upon thy forehead clearO
The freedom of a MountaineerO
A face with gladness overspreadA
Soft smiles by human kindness bredA
And seemliness complete that swaysN
Thy courtesies about thee playsN
With no restraint but such as springsN
From quick and eager visitingsN
Of thoughts that lie beyond the reachP
Of thy few words of English speechP
A bondage sweetly brooked a strifeQ
That gives thy gestures grace and lifeQ
So have I not unmoved in mindA
Seen birds of tempest loving kindA
Thus beating up against the windA
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What hand but would a garland cullR
For thee who art so beautifulR
O happy pleasure here to dwellS
Beside thee in some heathy dellS
Adopt your homely ways and dressN
A Shepherd thou a ShepherdessN
But I could frame a wish for theeT
More like a grave realityT
Thou art to me but as a waveU
Of the wild sea and I would haveV
Some claim upon thee if I couldA
Though but of common neighbourhoodA
What joy to hear thee and to seeT
Thy elder Brother I would beT
Thy Father anything to theeT
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Now thanks to Heaven that of its graceN
Hath led me to this lonely placeN
Joy have I had and going henceN
I bear away my recompenseN
In spots like these it is we prizeN
Our Memory feel that she hath eyesN
Then why should I be loth to stirB
I feel this place was made for herB
To give new pleasure like the pastA
Continued long as life shall lastA
Nor am I loth though pleased at heartA
Sweet Highland Girl from thee to partA
For I methinks till I grow oldA
As fair before me shall beholdA
As I do now the cabin smallW
The lake the bay the waterfallW
And thee the spirit of them allW

William Wordsworth



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