To The Moon - Composed By The Seaside, On The Coast Of Cumberland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KK LLMMJJNOPPQQRRSSS HHTTUUVWXXYYZA2B2B2A AWWC2C2C2 RRXXHHHFFFD2| Wanderer that stoop'st so low and com'st so near | A |
| To human life's unsettled atmosphere | A |
| Who lov'st with Night and Silence to partake | B |
| So might it seem the cares of them that wake | B |
| And through the cottage lattice softly peeping | C |
| Dost shield from harm the humblest of the sleeping | C |
| What pleasure once encompassed those sweet names | D |
| Which yet in thy behalf the Poet claims | D |
| An idolizing dreamer as of yore | E |
| I slight them all and on this sea beat shore | E |
| Sole sitting only can to thoughts attend | F |
| That bid me hail thee as the Sailor's friend | F |
| So call thee for heaven's grace through thee made known | G |
| By confidence supplied and mercy shown | G |
| When not a twinkling star or beacon's light | H |
| Abates the perils of a stormy night | H |
| And for less obvious benefits that find | I |
| Their way with thy pure help to heart and mind | I |
| Both for the adventurer starting in life's prime | J |
| And veteran ranging round from clime to clime | J |
| Long baffled hope's slow fever in his veins | K |
| And wounds and weakness oft his labour's sole remains | K |
| - | |
| The aspiring Mountains and the winding Streams | L |
| Empress of Night are gladdened by thy beams | L |
| A look of thine the wilderness pervades | M |
| And penetrates the forest's inmost shades | M |
| Thou chequering peaceably the minster's gloom | J |
| Guid'st the pale Mourner to the lost one's tomb | J |
| Canst reach the Prisoner to his grated cell | N |
| Welcome though silent and intangible | O |
| And lives there one of all that come and go | P |
| On the great waters toiling to and fro | P |
| One who has watched thee at some quiet hour | Q |
| Enthroned aloft in undisputed power | Q |
| Or crossed by vapoury streaks and clouds that move | R |
| Catching the lustre they in part reprove | R |
| Nor sometimes felt a fitness in thy sway | S |
| To call up thoughts that shun the glare of day | S |
| And make the serious happier than the gay | S |
| - | |
| Yes lovely Moon if thou so mildly bright | H |
| Dost rouse yet surely in thy own despite | H |
| To fiercer mood the phrenzy stricken brain | T |
| Let me a compensating faith maintain | T |
| That there's a sensitive a tender part | U |
| Which thou canst touch in every human heart | U |
| For healing and composure But as least | V |
| And mightiest billows ever have confessed | W |
| Thy domination as the whole vast Sea | X |
| Feels through her lowest depths thy sovereignty | X |
| So shines that countenance with especial grace | Y |
| On them who urge the keel her 'plains' to trace | Y |
| Furrowing its way right onward The most rude | Z |
| Cut off from home and country may have stood | A2 |
| Even till long gazing hath bedimmed his eye | B2 |
| Or the mute rapture ended in a sigh | B2 |
| Touched by accordance of thy placid cheer | A |
| With some internal lights to memory dear | A |
| Or fancies stealing forth to soothe the breast | W |
| Tired with its daily share of earth's unrest | W |
| Gentle awakenings visitations meek | C2 |
| A kindly influence whereof few will speak | C2 |
| Though it can wet with tears the hardiest cheek | C2 |
| - | |
| And when thy beauty in the shadowy cave | R |
| Is hidden buried in its monthly grave | R |
| Then while the Sailor 'mid an open sea | X |
| Swept by a favouring wind that leaves thought free | X |
| Paces the deck no star perhaps in sight | H |
| And nothing save the moving ship's own light | H |
| To cheer the long dark hours of vacant night | H |
| Oft with his musings does thy image blend | F |
| In his mind's eye thy crescent horns ascend | F |
| And thou art still O Moon that Sailor's friend | F |
| nbsp | D2 |
William Wordsworth
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