To The Moon - Rydal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDDEEFFGGHHH IIJJ KKLLMMNNOPQQMMMMMM RRRSSMMMTTUUVVWWXXQueen of the stars so gentle so benign | A |
That ancient Fable did to thee assign | A |
When darkness creeping o'er thy silver brow | B |
Warned thee these upper regions to forego | C |
Alternate empire in the shades below | C |
A Bard who lately near the wide spread sea | D |
Traversed by gleaming ships looked up to thee | D |
With grateful thoughts doth now thy rising hail | E |
From the close confines of a shadowy vale | E |
Glory of night conspicuous yet serene | F |
Nor less attractive when by glimpses seen | F |
Through cloudy umbrage well might that fair face | G |
And all those attributes of modest grace | G |
In days when Fancy wrought unchecked by fear | H |
Down to the green earth fetch thee from thy sphere | H |
To sit in leafy woods by fountains clear | H |
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O still beloved for thine meek Power are charms | I |
That fascinate the very Babe in arms | I |
While he uplifted towards thee laughs outright | J |
Spreading his little palms in his glad Mother's sight | J |
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O still beloved once worshiped Time that frowns | K |
In his destructive flight on earthly crowns | K |
Spares thy mild splendour still those far shot beams | L |
Tremble on dancing waves and rippling streams | L |
With stainless touch as chaste as when thy praise | M |
Was sung by Virgin choirs in festal lays | M |
And through dark trials still dost thou explore | N |
Thy way for increase punctual as of yore | N |
When teeming Matrons yielding to rude faith | O |
In mysteries of birth and life and death | P |
And painful struggle and deliverance prayed | Q |
Of thee to visit them with lenient aid | Q |
What though the rites be swept away the fanes | M |
Extinct that echoed to the votive strains | M |
Yet thy mild aspect does not cannot cease | M |
Love to promote and purity and peace | M |
And Fancy unreproved even yet may trace | M |
Faint types of suffering in thy beamless face | M |
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Then silent Monitress let us not blind | R |
To worlds unthought of till the searching mind | R |
Of Science laid them open to mankind | R |
Told also how the voiceless heavens declare | S |
God's glory and acknowledging thy share | S |
In that blest charge let us without offense | M |
To aught of highest holiest influence | M |
Receive whatever good 'tis given thee to dispense | M |
May sage and simple catching with one eye | T |
The moral intimations of the sky | T |
Learn from thy course where'er their own be taken | U |
To look on tempests and be never shaken | U |
To keep with faithful step the appointed way | V |
Eclipsing or eclipsed by night or day | V |
And from example of thy monthly range | W |
Gently to brook decline and fatal change | W |
Meek patient steadfast and with loftier scope | X |
Than thy revival yields for gladsome hope | X |
William Wordsworth
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