To The Clouds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMHNOPQRS TUVWXYZA2DB2C2ID2E2F 2G2H2FI2HJ2K2L2M2N2O 2EP2Q2FFR2H S2T2FFU2V2W2X2FY2M2Z 2A3B3C3D3E3UF3A3G3P2 FY2H3W2WI3J3K3HE3FFF L3M3M3FN3HW2Army of Clouds ye winged Hosts in troops | A |
Ascending from behind the motionless brow | B |
Of that tall rock as from a hidden world | C |
Oh whither with such eagerness of speed | D |
What seek ye or what shun ye of the gale | E |
Companions fear ye to be left behind | F |
Or racing o'er your blue ethereal field | G |
Contend ye with each other of the sea | H |
Children thus post ye over vale and height | I |
To sink upon your's mother's lap and rest | J |
Or were ye rightlier hailed when first mine eyes | K |
Beheld in your impetuous march the likeness | L |
Of a wide army pressing on to meet | M |
Or overtake some unknown enemy | H |
But your smooth motions suit a peaceful aim | N |
And Fancy not less aptly pleased compares | O |
Your squadrons to an endless flight of birds | P |
Aerial upon due migration bound | Q |
To milder climes or rather do ye urge | R |
In caravan your hasty pilgrimage | S |
To pause at last on more aspiring heights | T |
Than these and utter your devotion there | U |
With thunderous voice Or are ye jubilant | V |
And would ye tracking your proud lord the Sun | W |
Be present at his setting or the pomp | X |
Of Persian mornings would ye fill and stand | Y |
Poising your splendours high above the heads | Z |
Of worshipers kneeling to their up risen God | A2 |
Whence whence ye Clouds this eagerness of speed | D |
Speak silent creatures They are gone are fled | B2 |
Buried together in yon gloomy mass | C2 |
That loads the middle heaven and clear and bright | I |
And vacant doth the region which they thronged | D2 |
Appear a calm descent of sky conducting | E2 |
Down to the unapproachable abyss | F2 |
Down to that hidden gulf from which they rose | G2 |
To vanish fleet as days and months and years | H2 |
Fleet as the generations of mankind | F |
Power glory empire as the world itself | I2 |
The lingering world when time hath ceased to be | H |
But the winds roar shaking the rooted trees | J2 |
And see a bright precursor to a train | K2 |
Perchance as numerous overpeers the rock | L2 |
That sullenly refuses to partake | M2 |
Of the wild impulse From a fount of life | N2 |
Invisible the long procession moves | O2 |
Luminous or gloomy welcome to the vale | E |
Which they are entering welcome to mine eye | P2 |
That sees them to my soul that owns in them | Q2 |
And in the bosom of the firmament | F |
O'er which they move wherein they are contained | F |
A type of her capacious self and all | R2 |
Her restless progeny | H |
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A humble walk | S2 |
Here is my body doomed to tread this path | T2 |
A little hoary line and faintly traced | F |
Work shall we call it of the shepherd's foot | F |
Or of his flock joint vestige of them both | U2 |
I pace it unrepining for my thoughts | V2 |
Admit no bondage and my words have wings | W2 |
Where is the Orphean lyre or Druid harp | X2 |
To accompany the verse The mountain blast | F |
Shall be our 'hand' of music he shall sweep | Y2 |
The rocks and quivering trees and billowy lake | M2 |
And search the fibres of the caves and they | Z2 |
Shall answer for our song is of the Clouds | A3 |
And the wind loves them and the gentle gales | B3 |
Which by their aid re clothe the naked lawn | C3 |
With annual verdure and revive the woods | D3 |
And moisten the parched lips of thirsty flowers | E3 |
Love them and every idle breeze of air | U |
Bends to the favourite burthen Moon and stars | F3 |
Keep their most solemn vigils when the Clouds | A3 |
Watch also shifting peaceably their place | G3 |
Like bands of ministering Spirits or when they lie | P2 |
As if some Protean art the change had wrought | F |
In listless quiet o'er the ethereal deep | Y2 |
Scattered a Cyclades of various shapes | H3 |
And all degrees of beauty O ye Lightnings | W2 |
Ye are their perilous offspring and the Sun | W |
Source inexhaustible of life and joy | I3 |
And type of man's far darting reason therefore | J3 |
In old time worshiped as the god of verse | K3 |
A blazing intellectual deity | H |
Loves his own glory in their looks and showers | E3 |
Upon that unsubstantial brotherhood | F |
Visions with all but beatific light | F |
Enriched too transient were they not renewed | F |
From age to age and did not while we gaze | L3 |
In silent rapture credulous desire | M3 |
Nourish the hope that memory lacks not power | M3 |
To keep the treasure unimpaired Vain thought | F |
Yet why repine created as we are | N3 |
For joy and rest albeit to find them only | H |
Lodged in the bosom of eternal things | W2 |
William Wordsworth
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