To The Lady Fleming Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEFGHH IJIJKKLMHH HNHNFFOOHH HHHHPPQQRR O O SSTU HHHHVVHHHH WOWOOOXXOO YOYOYY H ZOZOOOA2A2OO H Y YB2B2C2C2OO

On Seeing The Foundation Preparing For The Erection Of Rydal Chapel WestmorelandA
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Blest is this Isle our native LandB
Where battlement and moated gateC
Are objects only for the handB
Of hoary Time to decorateC
Where shady hamlet town that breathesD
Its busy smoke in social wreathsE
No rampart's stern defense requireF
Nought but the heaven directed spireG
And steeple tower with pealing bellsH
Far heard our only citadelsH
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O Lady from a noble lineI
Of chieftains sprung who stoutly boreJ
The spear yet gave to works divineI
A bounteous help in days of yoreJ
As records mouldering in the DellK
Of Nightshade haply yet may tellK
Thee kindred aspirations movedL
To build within a vale belovedM
For Him upon whose high behestsH
All peace depends all safety restsH
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How fondly will the woods embraceH
This daughter of thy pious careN
Lifting her front with modest graceH
To make a fair recess more fairN
And to exalt the passing hourF
Or soothe it with a healing powerF
Drawn from the Sacrifice fulfilledO
Before this rugged soil was tilledO
Or human habitation roseH
To interrupt the deep reposeH
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Well may the villagers rejoiceH
Nor heat nor cold nor weary waysH
Will be a hindrance to the voiceH
That would unite in prayer and praiseH
More duly shall wild wandering YouthP
Receive the curb of sacred truthP
Shall tottering Age bent earthward hearQ
The Promise with uplifted earQ
And all shall welcome the new rayR
Imparted to their sabbath dayR
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Nor deem the Poet's hope misplacedO
His fancy cheated that can see-
A shade upon the future castO
Of time's pathetic sanctity-
Can hear the monitory clockS
Sound o'er the lake with gentle shockS
At evening when the ground beneathT
Is ruffled o'er with cells of deathU
Where happy generations lie-
Here tutored for eternity-
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Lives there a man whose sole delightsH
Are trivial pomp and city noiseH
Hardening a heart that loathes or slightsH
What every natural heart enjoysH
Who never caught a noon tide dreamV
From murmur of a running streamV
Could strip for aught the prospect yieldsH
To him their verdure from the fieldsH
And take the radiance from the cloudsH
In which the sun his setting shroudsH
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A soul so pitiably forlornW
If such do on this earth abideO
May season apathy with scornW
May turn indifference to prideO
And still be not unblest comparedO
With him who grovels self debarredO
From all that lies within the scopeX
Of holy faith and Christian hopeX
Or shipwrecked kindles on the coastO
False fires that others may be lostO
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Alas that such perverted zealY
Should spread on Britain's favoured groundO
That public order private wealY
Should e'er have felt or feared a woundO
From champions of the desperate lawY
Which from their own blind hearts they drawY
Who tempt their reason to deny-
God whom their passions dare defy-
And boast that they alone are free-
Who reach this dire extremity-
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But turn we from these bold bad menZ
The way mild Lady that hath ledO
Down to their dark opprobrious denZ
Is all too rough for Thee to treadO
Softly as morning vapours glideO
Down Rydal cove from Fairfield's sideO
Should move the tenor of 'his' songA2
Who means to charity no wrongA2
Whose offering gladly would accordO
With this day's work in thought and wordO
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Heaven prosper it may peace and love-
And hope and consolation fallY
Through its meek influence from above-
And penetrate the hearts of allY
All who around the hallowed FaneB2
Shall sojourn in this fair domainB2
Grateful to Thee while service pureC2
And ancient ordinance shall endureC2
For opportunity bestowedO
To kneel together and adore their GodO

William Wordsworth



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