To Joanna Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST UVWXYZJA2B2C2DECEKED 2E2SEF2C2EUETYG2NEH2 EESI2C2J2K2EL2C2M2N2 O2EEEP2EEQ2R2S2EET2U 2L2V2W2M2A2L2EC2Amid the smoke of cities did you pass | A |
The time of early youth and there you learned | B |
From years of quiet industry to love | C |
The living Beings by your own fireside | D |
With such a strong devotion that your heart | E |
Is slow to meet the sympathies of them | F |
Who look upon the hills with tenderness | G |
And make dear friendships with the streams and groves | H |
Yet we who are transgressors in this kind | I |
Dwelling retired in our simplicity | J |
Among the woods and fields we love you well | K |
Joanna and I guess since you have been | L |
So distant from us now for two long years | M |
That you will gladly listen to discourse | N |
However trivial if you thence be taught | O |
That they with whom you once were happy talk | P |
Familiarly of you and of old times | Q |
While I was seated now some ten days past | R |
Beneath those lofty firs that overtop | S |
Their ancient neighbour the old steeple tower | T |
The Vicar from his gloomy house hard by | U |
Came forth to greet me and when he had asked | V |
How fares Joanna that wild hearted Maid | W |
And when will she return to us he paused | X |
And after short exchange of village news | Y |
He with grave looks demanded for what cause | Z |
Reviving obsolete idolatry | J |
I like a Runic Priest in characters | A2 |
Of formidable size had chiselled out | B2 |
Some uncouth name upon the native rock | C2 |
Above the Rotha by the forest side | D |
Now by those dear immunities of heart | E |
Engendered between malice and true love | C |
I was not loth to be so catechised | E |
And this was my reply As it befell | K |
One summer morning we had walked abroad | E |
At break of day Joanna and myself | D2 |
'Twas that delightful season when the broom | E2 |
Full flowered and visible on every steep | S |
Along the copses runs in veins of gold | E |
Our pathway led us on to Rotha's banks | F2 |
And when we came in front of that tall rock | C2 |
That eastward looks I there stopped short and stood | E |
Tracing the lofty barrier with my eye | U |
From base to summit such delight I found | E |
To note in shrub and tree in stone and flower | T |
That intermixture of delicious hues | Y |
Along so vast a surface all at once | G2 |
In one impression by connecting force | N |
Of their own beauty imaged in the heart | E |
When I had gazed perhaps two minutes' space | H2 |
Joanna looking in my eyes beheld | E |
That ravishment of mine and laughed aloud | E |
The Rock like something starting from a sleep | S |
Took up the Lady's voice and laughed again | I2 |
That ancient Woman seated on Helm crag | C2 |
Was ready with her cavern Hammar scar | J2 |
And the tall Steep of Silver how sent forth | K2 |
A noise of laughter southern Loughrigg heard | E |
And Fairfield answered with a mountain tone | L2 |
Helvellyn far into the clear blue sky | C2 |
Carried the Lady's voice old Skiddaw blew | M2 |
His speaking trumpet back out of the clouds | N2 |
Of Glaramara southward came the voice | O2 |
And Kirkstone tossed it from his misty head | E |
Now whether said I to our cordial Friend | E |
Who in the hey day of astonishment | E |
Smiled in my face this were in simple truth | P2 |
A work accomplished by the brotherhood | E |
Of ancient mountains or my ear was touched | E |
With dreams and visionary impulses | Q2 |
To me alone imparted sure I am | R2 |
That there was a loud uproar in the hills | S2 |
And while we both were listening to my side | E |
The fair Joanna drew as if she wished | E |
To shelter from some object of her fear | T2 |
And hence long afterwards when eighteen moons | U2 |
Were wasted as I chanced to walk alone | L2 |
Beneath this rock at sunrise on a calm | V2 |
And silent morning I sat down and there | W2 |
In memory of affections old and true | M2 |
I chiselled out in those rude characters | A2 |
Joanna's name deep in the living stone | L2 |
And I and all who dwell by my fireside | E |
Have called the lovely rock JOANNA'S ROCK | C2 |
William Wordsworth
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