To Joanna Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Amid the smoke of cities did you passA
The time of early youth and there you learnedB
From years of quiet industry to loveC
The living Beings by your own firesideD
With such a strong devotion that your heartE
Is slow to meet the sympathies of themF
Who look upon the hills with tendernessG
And make dear friendships with the streams and grovesH
Yet we who are transgressors in this kindI
Dwelling retired in our simplicityJ
Among the woods and fields we love you wellK
Joanna and I guess since you have beenL
So distant from us now for two long yearsM
That you will gladly listen to discourseN
However trivial if you thence be taughtO
That they with whom you once were happy talkP
Familiarly of you and of old timesQ
While I was seated now some ten days pastR
Beneath those lofty firs that overtopS
Their ancient neighbour the old steeple towerT
The Vicar from his gloomy house hard byU
Came forth to greet me and when he had askedV
How fares Joanna that wild hearted MaidW
And when will she return to us he pausedX
And after short exchange of village newsY
He with grave looks demanded for what causeZ
Reviving obsolete idolatryJ
I like a Runic Priest in charactersA2
Of formidable size had chiselled outB2
Some uncouth name upon the native rockC2
Above the Rotha by the forest sideD
Now by those dear immunities of heartE
Engendered between malice and true loveC
I was not loth to be so catechisedE
And this was my reply As it befellK
One summer morning we had walked abroadE
At break of day Joanna and myselfD2
'Twas that delightful season when the broomE2
Full flowered and visible on every steepS
Along the copses runs in veins of goldE
Our pathway led us on to Rotha's banksF2
And when we came in front of that tall rockC2
That eastward looks I there stopped short and stoodE
Tracing the lofty barrier with my eyeU
From base to summit such delight I foundE
To note in shrub and tree in stone and flowerT
That intermixture of delicious huesY
Along so vast a surface all at onceG2
In one impression by connecting forceN
Of their own beauty imaged in the heartE
When I had gazed perhaps two minutes' spaceH2
Joanna looking in my eyes beheldE
That ravishment of mine and laughed aloudE
The Rock like something starting from a sleepS
Took up the Lady's voice and laughed againI2
That ancient Woman seated on Helm cragC2
Was ready with her cavern Hammar scarJ2
And the tall Steep of Silver how sent forthK2
A noise of laughter southern Loughrigg heardE
And Fairfield answered with a mountain toneL2
Helvellyn far into the clear blue skyC2
Carried the Lady's voice old Skiddaw blewM2
His speaking trumpet back out of the cloudsN2
Of Glaramara southward came the voiceO2
And Kirkstone tossed it from his misty headE
Now whether said I to our cordial FriendE
Who in the hey day of astonishmentE
Smiled in my face this were in simple truthP2
A work accomplished by the brotherhoodE
Of ancient mountains or my ear was touchedE
With dreams and visionary impulsesQ2
To me alone imparted sure I amR2
That there was a loud uproar in the hillsS2
And while we both were listening to my sideE
The fair Joanna drew as if she wishedE
To shelter from some object of her fearT2
And hence long afterwards when eighteen moonsU2
Were wasted as I chanced to walk aloneL2
Beneath this rock at sunrise on a calmV2
And silent morning I sat down and thereW2
In memory of affections old and trueM2
I chiselled out in those rude charactersA2
Joanna's name deep in the living stoneL2
And I and all who dwell by my firesideE
Have called the lovely rock JOANNA'S ROCKC2

William Wordsworth



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