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 YB2B2C2C2OOOn Seeing The Foundation Preparing For The Erection Of Rydal Chapel Westmoreland | A |
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I | - |
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Blest is this Isle our native Land | B |
Where battlement and moated gate | C |
Are objects only for the hand | B |
Of hoary Time to decorate | C |
Where shady hamlet town that breathes | D |
Its busy smoke in social wreaths | E |
No rampart's stern defense require | F |
Nought but the heaven directed spire | G |
And steeple tower with pealing bells | H |
Far heard our only citadels | H |
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II | - |
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O Lady from a noble line | I |
Of chieftains sprung who stoutly bore | J |
The spear yet gave to works divine | I |
A bounteous help in days of yore | J |
As records mouldering in the Dell | K |
Of Nightshade haply yet may tell | K |
Thee kindred aspirations moved | L |
To build within a vale beloved | M |
For Him upon whose high behests | H |
All peace depends all safety rests | H |
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III | - |
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How fondly will the woods embrace | H |
This daughter of thy pious care | N |
Lifting her front with modest grace | H |
To make a fair recess more fair | N |
And to exalt the passing hour | F |
Or soothe it with a healing power | F |
Drawn from the Sacrifice fulfilled | O |
Before this rugged soil was tilled | O |
Or human habitation rose | H |
To interrupt the deep repose | H |
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IV | - |
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Well may the villagers rejoice | H |
Nor heat nor cold nor weary ways | H |
Will be a hindrance to the voice | H |
That would unite in prayer and praise | H |
More duly shall wild wandering Youth | P |
Receive the curb of sacred truth | P |
Shall tottering Age bent earthward hear | Q |
The Promise with uplifted ear | Q |
And all shall welcome the new ray | R |
Imparted to their sabbath day | R |
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V | - |
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Nor deem the Poet's hope misplaced | O |
His fancy cheated that can see | - |
A shade upon the future cast | O |
Of time's pathetic sanctity | - |
Can hear the monitory clock | S |
Sound o'er the lake with gentle shock | S |
At evening when the ground beneath | T |
Is ruffled o'er with cells of death | U |
Where happy generations lie | - |
Here tutored for eternity | - |
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VI | - |
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Lives there a man whose sole delights | H |
Are trivial pomp and city noise | H |
Hardening a heart that loathes or slights | H |
What every natural heart enjoys | H |
Who never caught a noon tide dream | V |
From murmur of a running stream | V |
Could strip for aught the prospect yields | H |
To him their verdure from the fields | H |
And take the radiance from the clouds | H |
In which the sun his setting shrouds | H |
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VII | - |
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A soul so pitiably forlorn | W |
If such do on this earth abide | O |
May season apathy with scorn | W |
May turn indifference to pride | O |
And still be not unblest compared | O |
With him who grovels self debarred | O |
From all that lies within the scope | X |
Of holy faith and Christian hope | X |
Or shipwrecked kindles on the coast | O |
False fires that others may be lost | O |
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VIII | - |
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Alas that such perverted zeal | Y |
Should spread on Britain's favoured ground | O |
That public order private weal | Y |
Should e'er have felt or feared a wound | O |
From champions of the desperate law | Y |
Which from their own blind hearts they draw | Y |
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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IX | H |
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But turn we from these bold bad men | Z |
The way mild Lady that hath led | O |
Down to their dark opprobrious den | Z |
Is all too rough for Thee to tread | O |
Softly as morning vapours glide | O |
Down Rydal cove from Fairfield's side | O |
Should move the tenor of 'his' song | A2 |
Who means to charity no wrong | A2 |
Whose offering gladly would accord | O |
With this day's work in thought and word | O |
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X | H |
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Heaven prosper it may peace and love | - |
And hope and consolation fall | Y |
Through its meek influence from above | - |
And penetrate the hearts of all | Y |
All who around the hallowed Fane | B2 |
Shall sojourn in this fair domain | B2 |
Grateful to Thee while service pure | C2 |
And ancient ordinance shall endure | C2 |
For opportunity bestowed | O |
To kneel together and adore their God | O |
William Wordsworth
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