Upon Seeing A Coloured Drawing Of The Bird Of Paradise In An Album Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCDDBEEBFGGFBHHAD DBA ICCJJKKIILECECCCCIM| Who rashly strove thy Image to portray | A |
| Thou buoyant minion of the tropic air | B |
| How could he think of the live creature gay | A |
| With a divinity of colours drest | C |
| In all her brightness from the dancing crest | C |
| Far as the last gleam of the filmy train | D |
| Extended and extending to sustain | D |
| The motions that it graces and forbear | B |
| To drop his pencil Flowers of every clime | E |
| Depicted on these pages smile at time | E |
| And gorgeous insects copied with nice care | B |
| Are here and likenesses of many a shell | F |
| Tossed ashore by restless waves | G |
| Or in the diver's grasp fetched up from caves | G |
| Where sea nymphs might be proud to dwell | F |
| But whose rash hand again I ask could dare | B |
| 'Mid casual tokens and promiscuous shows | H |
| To circumscribe this Shape in fixed repose | H |
| Could imitate for indolent survey | A |
| Perhaps for touch profane | D |
| Plumes that might catch but cannot keep a stain | D |
| And with cloud streaks lightest and loftiest share | B |
| The sun's first greeting his last farewell ray | A |
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| Resplendent Wanderer followed with glad eyes | I |
| Where'er her course mysterious Bird | C |
| To whom by wondering Fancy stirred | C |
| Eastern Islanders have given | J |
| A holy name the Bird of Heaven | J |
| And even a title higher still | K |
| The Bird of God whose blessed will | K |
| She seems performing as she flies | I |
| Over the earth and through the skies | I |
| In never wearied search of Paradise | L |
| Region that crowns her beauty with the name | E |
| She bears for 'us' for us how blest | C |
| How happy at all seasons could like aim | E |
| Uphold our Spirits urged to kindred flight | C |
| On wings that fear no glance of God's pure sight | C |
| No tempest from his breath their promised rest | C |
| Seeking with indefatigable quest | C |
| Above a world that deems itself most wise | I |
| When most enslaved by gross realities | M |
William Wordsworth
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