To The Moon - Rydal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDDEEFFGGHHH IIJJ KKLLMMNNOPQQMMMMMM RRRSSMMMTTUUVVWWXX

Queen of the stars so gentle so benignA
That ancient Fable did to thee assignA
When darkness creeping o'er thy silver browB
Warned thee these upper regions to foregoC
Alternate empire in the shades belowC
A Bard who lately near the wide spread seaD
Traversed by gleaming ships looked up to theeD
With grateful thoughts doth now thy rising hailE
From the close confines of a shadowy valeE
Glory of night conspicuous yet sereneF
Nor less attractive when by glimpses seenF
Through cloudy umbrage well might that fair faceG
And all those attributes of modest graceG
In days when Fancy wrought unchecked by fearH
Down to the green earth fetch thee from thy sphereH
To sit in leafy woods by fountains clearH
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O still beloved for thine meek Power are charmsI
That fascinate the very Babe in armsI
While he uplifted towards thee laughs outrightJ
Spreading his little palms in his glad Mother's sightJ
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O still beloved once worshiped Time that frownsK
In his destructive flight on earthly crownsK
Spares thy mild splendour still those far shot beamsL
Tremble on dancing waves and rippling streamsL
With stainless touch as chaste as when thy praiseM
Was sung by Virgin choirs in festal laysM
And through dark trials still dost thou exploreN
Thy way for increase punctual as of yoreN
When teeming Matrons yielding to rude faithO
In mysteries of birth and life and deathP
And painful struggle and deliverance prayedQ
Of thee to visit them with lenient aidQ
What though the rites be swept away the fanesM
Extinct that echoed to the votive strainsM
Yet thy mild aspect does not cannot ceaseM
Love to promote and purity and peaceM
And Fancy unreproved even yet may traceM
Faint types of suffering in thy beamless faceM
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Then silent Monitress let us not blindR
To worlds unthought of till the searching mindR
Of Science laid them open to mankindR
Told also how the voiceless heavens declareS
God's glory and acknowledging thy shareS
In that blest charge let us without offenseM
To aught of highest holiest influenceM
Receive whatever good 'tis given thee to dispenseM
May sage and simple catching with one eyeT
The moral intimations of the skyT
Learn from thy course where'er their own be takenU
To look on tempests and be never shakenU
To keep with faithful step the appointed wayV
Eclipsing or eclipsed by night or dayV
And from example of thy monthly rangeW
Gently to brook decline and fatal changeW
Meek patient steadfast and with loftier scopeX
Than thy revival yields for gladsome hopeX

William Wordsworth



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