Vaudracour And Julia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJDKJLLMNOPQ RDSTUVWXYZDA2NSB2C2C 2D2C2E2VF2C2DEG2H2I2 J2K2C2L2EC2C2C2D2C2E A2DM2N2C2C2RO2P2Q2C2 C2C2ER2S2DDT2C2C2P2S U2V2EGC2W2C2DC2U2BX2 Y2Z2C2C2C2A3MC2P2C2C 2DC2EB3DC2A2C3C2D3P2 DE3NC2C2F3NSDC2C2DD3 C2C2G3C2C2DH3C2I3J3C 2P2C2CC2K3P2C2C2CSC2 C2L3P2E2M3C2N3C2DGB3 F3DF3O3NC2P3Q3P2DDP2 DP2C2C2BR3C2C2S3C2C2 DK3DT3DU3V3O HAPPY time of youthful lovers thus | A |
My story may begin O balmy time | B |
In which a love knot on a lady's brow | C |
Is fairer than the fairest star in heaven | D |
To such inheritance of blessed fancy | E |
Fancy that sports more desperately with minds | F |
Than ever fortune hath been known to do | G |
The high born Vaudracour was brought by years | H |
Whose progress had a little overstepped | I |
His stripling prime A town of small repute | J |
Among the vine clad mountains of Auvergne | D |
Was the Youth's birth place There he wooed a Maid | K |
Who heard the heart felt music of his suit | J |
With answering vows Plebeian was the stock | L |
Plebeian though ingenuous the stock | L |
From which her graces and her honours sprung | M |
And hence the father of the enamoured Youth | N |
With haughty indignation spurned the thought | O |
Of such alliance From their cradles up | P |
With but a step between their several homes | Q |
Twins had they been in pleasure after strife | R |
And petty quarrels had grown fond again | D |
Each other's advocate each other's stay | S |
And in their happiest moments not content | T |
If more divided than a sportive pair | U |
Of sea fowl conscious both that they are hovering | V |
Within the eddy of a common blast | W |
Or hidden only by the concave depth | X |
Of neighbouring billows from each other's sight | Y |
Thus not without concurrence of an age | Z |
Unknown to memory was an earnest given | D |
By ready nature for a life of love | A2 |
For endless constancy and placid truth | N |
But whatsoe'er of such rare treasure lay | S |
Reserved had fate permitted for support | B2 |
Of their maturer years his present mind | C2 |
Was under fascination he beheld | C2 |
A vision and adored the thing he saw | D2 |
Arabian fiction never filled the world | C2 |
With half the wonders that were wrought for him | E2 |
Earth breathed in one great presence of the spring | V |
Life turned the meanest of her implements | F2 |
Before his eyes to price above all gold | C2 |
The house she dwelt in was a sainted shrine | D |
Her chamber window did surpass in glory | E |
The portals of the dawn all paradise | G2 |
Could by the simple opening of a door | H2 |
Let itself in upon him pathways walks | I2 |
Swarmed with enchantment till his spirit sank | J2 |
Surcharged within him overblest to move | K2 |
Beneath a sun that wakes a weary world | C2 |
To its dull round of ordinary cares | L2 |
A man too happy for mortality | E |
So passed the time till whether through effect | C2 |
Of some unguarded moment that dissolved | C2 |
Virtuous restraint ah speak it think it not | C2 |
Deem rather that the fervent Youth who saw | D2 |
So many bars between his present state | C2 |
And the dear haven where he wished to be | E |
In honourable wedlock with his Love | A2 |
Was in his judgment tempted to decline | D |
To perilous weakness and entrust his cause | M2 |
To nature for a happy end of all | N2 |
Deem that by such fond hope the Youth was swayed | C2 |
And bear with their transgression when I add | C2 |
That Julia wanting yet the name of wife | R |
Carried about her for a secret grief | O2 |
The promise of a mother | P2 |
To conceal | Q2 |
The threatened shame the parents of the Maid | C2 |
Found means to hurry her away by night | C2 |
And unforewarned that in some distant spot | C2 |
She might remain shrouded in privacy | E |
Until the babe was born When morning came | R2 |
The Lover thus bereft stung with his loss | S2 |
And all uncertain whither he should turn | D |
Chafed like a wild beast in the toils but soon | D |
Discovering traces of the fugitives | T2 |
Their steps he followed to the Maid's retreat | C2 |
Easily may the sequel be divined | C2 |
Walks to and fro watchings at every hour | P2 |
And the fair Captive who whene'er she may | S |
Is busy at her casement as the swallow | U2 |
Fluttering its pinions almost within reach | V2 |
About the pendent nest did thus espy | E |
Her Lover thence a stolen interview | G |
Accomplished under friendly shade of night | C2 |
I pass the raptures of the pair such theme | W2 |
Is by innumerable poets touched | C2 |
In more delightful verse than skill of mine | D |
Could fashion chiefly by that darling bard | C2 |
Who told of Juliet and her Romeo | U2 |
And of the lark's note heard before its time | B |
And of the streaks that laced the severing clouds | X2 |
In the unrelenting east Through all her courts | Y2 |
The vacant city slept the busy winds | Z2 |
That keep no certain intervals of rest | C2 |
Moved not meanwhile the galaxy displayed | C2 |
Her fires that like mysterious pulses beat | C2 |
Aloft momentous but uneasy bliss | A3 |
To their full hearts the universe seemed hung | M |
On that brief meeting's slender filament | C2 |
They parted and the generous Vaudracour | P2 |
Reached speedily the native threshold bent | C2 |
On making so the Lovers had agreed | C2 |
A sacrifice of birthright to attain | D |
A final portion from his father's hand | C2 |
Which granted Bride and Bridegroom then would flee | E |
To some remote and solitary place | B3 |
Shady as night and beautiful as heaven | D |
Where they may live with no one to behold | C2 |
Their happiness or to disturb their love | A2 |
But 'now' of this no whisper not the less | C3 |
If ever an obtrusive word were dropped | C2 |
Touching the matter of his passion still | D3 |
In his stern father's hearing Vaudracour | P2 |
Persisted openly that death alone | D |
Should abrogate his human privilege | E3 |
Divine of swearing everlasting truth | N |
Upon the altar to the Maid he loved | C2 |
'You shall be baffled in your mad intent | C2 |
If there be justice in the court of France ' | F3 |
Muttered the Father From these words the Youth | N |
Conceived a terror and by night or day | S |
Stirred nowhere without weapons that full soon | D |
Found dreadful provocation for at night | C2 |
When to his chamber he retired attempt | C2 |
Was made to seize him by three armed men | D |
Acting in furtherance of the father's will | D3 |
Under a private signet of the State | C2 |
One the rash Youth's ungovernable hand | C2 |
Slew and as quickly to a second gave | G3 |
A perilous wound he shuddered to behold | C2 |
The breathless corse then peacefully resigned | C2 |
His person to the law was lodged in prison | D |
And wore the fetters of a criminal | H3 |
Have you observed a tuft of winged seed | C2 |
That from the dandelion's naked stalk | I3 |
Mounted aloft is suffered not to use | J3 |
Its natural gifts for purposes of rest | C2 |
Driven by the autumnal whirlwind to and fro | P2 |
Through the wide element or have you marked | C2 |
The heavier substance of a leaf clad bough | C |
Within the vortex of a foaming flood | C2 |
Tormented by such aid you may conceive | K3 |
The perturbation that ensued ah no | P2 |
Desperate the Maid the Youth is stained with blood | C2 |
Unmatchable on earth is their disquiet | C2 |
Yet as the troubled seed and tortured bough | C |
Is Man subjected to despotic sway | S |
For him by private influence with the Court | C2 |
Was pardon gained and liberty procured | C2 |
But not without exaction of a pledge | L3 |
Which liberty and love dispersed in air | P2 |
He flew to her from whom they would divide him | E2 |
He clove to her who could not give him peace | M3 |
Yea his first word of greeting was 'All right | C2 |
Is gone from me my lately towering hopes | N3 |
To the least fibre of their lowest root | C2 |
Are withered thou no longer canst be mine | D |
I thine the conscience stricken must not woo | G |
The unruffled Innocent I see thy face | B3 |
Behold thee and my misery is complete ' | F3 |
'One are we not ' exclaimed the Maiden 'One | D |
For innocence and youth for weal and woe ' | F3 |
Then with the father's name she coupled words | O3 |
Of vehement indignation but the Youth | N |
Checked her with filial meekness for no thought | C2 |
Uncharitable crossed his mind no sense | P3 |
Of hasty anger rising in the eclipse | Q3 |
Of true domestic loyalty did e'er | P2 |
Find place within his bosom Once again | D |
The persevering wedge of tyranny | D |
Achieved their separation and once more | P2 |
Were they united to be yet again | D |
Disparted pitiable lot But here | P2 |
A portion of the tale may well be left | C2 |
In silence though my memory could add | C2 |
Much how the Youth in scanty space of time | B |
Was traversed from without much too of thoughts | R3 |
That occupied his days in solitude | C2 |
Under privation and restraint and what | C2 |
Through dark and shapeless fear of things to come | S3 |
And what through strong compunction for the past | C2 |
He suffered breaking down in heart and mind | C2 |
Doomed to a third and last captivity | D |
His freedom he recovered on the eve | K3 |
Of Julia's travail When the babe was born | D |
Its presence tempted him to cherish schemes | T3 |
Of future happiness 'You shall return | D |
Julia ' said he 'and to your father's house | U3 |
Go with the child You ha | V3 |
William Wordsworth
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