To May Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKM NONOP PQ RSRSTUVW XYXYZYZY A2B2C2B2YXY XYXYXXXX D2YD2YE2ME2M F2G2H2G2YYYY I2YI2YXYXY J2HK2HL2YL2Y| THOUGH many suns have risen and set | A |
| Since thou blithe May wert born | B |
| And Bards who hailed thee may forget | A |
| Thy gift thy beauty scorn | B |
| There are who to a birthday strain | C |
| Confine not harp and voice | D |
| But evermore throughout thy reign | C |
| Are grateful and rejoice | D |
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| Delicious odor music sweet | E |
| Too sweet to pass away | F |
| Oh for a deathless song to meet | E |
| The soul's desire a lay | F |
| That when a thousand year are told | G |
| Should praise thee genial Power | H |
| Through summer heat autumnal cold | G |
| And winter's dreariest hour | H |
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| Earth sea thy presence feel nor less | I |
| If yon ethereal blue | J |
| With its soft smile the truth express | I |
| The heavens have felt it too | J |
| The inmost heart of man if glad | K |
| Partakes a livelier cheer | L |
| And eye that cannot but be sad | K |
| Let fall a brightened tear | M |
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| Since thy return through days and weeks | N |
| Of hope that grew by stealth | O |
| How many wan and faded cheeks | N |
| Have kindled into health | O |
| The Old by thee revived have said | P |
| 'Another year is ours ' | - |
| And wayworn Wanderers poorly fed | P |
| Have smiled upon thy flowers | Q |
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| Who tripping lisps a merry song | R |
| Amid his playful peers | S |
| The tender Infant who was long | R |
| A prisoner of fond fears | S |
| But now when every sharp edged blast | T |
| Is quiet in its sheath | U |
| His Mother leaves him free to taste | V |
| Earth's sweetness in thy breath | W |
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| Thy help is with the weed that creeps | X |
| Along the humblest ground | Y |
| No cliff so bare but on its steeps | X |
| Thy favors may be found | Y |
| But most on some peculiar nook | Z |
| That our own hands have drest | Y |
| Thou and thy train are proud to look | Z |
| And seem to love it best | Y |
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| And yet how pleased we wander forth | A2 |
| When May is whispering 'Come | B2 |
| 'Choose from the bowers of virgin earth | C2 |
| The happiest for your home | B2 |
| Heaven s bounteous love through me is spread | Y |
| From sunshine clouds winds waves | X |
| Drops on the mouldering turret's head | Y |
| And on your turf clad graves ' | - |
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| Such greeting heard away with sighs | X |
| For lilies that must fade | Y |
| Or ' the rathe primrose as it dies | X |
| Forsaken' in the shade | Y |
| Vernal fruitions and desires | X |
| Are linked in endless chase | X |
| While as one kindly growth retires | X |
| Another takes its place | X |
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| And what if thou sweet May hast known | D2 |
| Mishap by worm and blight | Y |
| If expectations newly blown | D2 |
| Have perished in thy sight | Y |
| If loves and joys while up they sprung | E2 |
| Were caught as in a snare | M |
| Such is the lot of all the young | E2 |
| However bright and fair | M |
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| Lo Streams that April could not check | F2 |
| Are patient of thy rule | G2 |
| Gurgling in foamy water break | H2 |
| Loitering in glassy pool | G2 |
| By thee thee only could be sent | Y |
| Such gentle mists as glide | Y |
| Curling with unconfirmed intent | Y |
| On that green mountain's side | Y |
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| How delicate the leafy veil | I2 |
| Through which yon house of God | Y |
| Gleams 'mid the peace of this deep dale | I2 |
| By few but shepherds trod | Y |
| And lowly huts near beaten ways | X |
| No sooner stand attired | Y |
| In thy fresh wreaths than they for praise | X |
| Peep forth and are admired | Y |
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| Season of fancy and of hope | J2 |
| Permit not for one hour | H |
| A blossom from thy crown to drop | K2 |
| Nor add to it a flower | H |
| Keep lovely May as if by touch | L2 |
| Of self restraining art | Y |
| This modest charm of not too much | L2 |
| Part seen imagined part | Y |
William Wordsworth
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