Vaudracour And Julia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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O HAPPY time of youthful lovers thusA
My story may begin O balmy timeB
In which a love knot on a lady's browC
Is fairer than the fairest star in heavenD
To such inheritance of blessed fancyE
Fancy that sports more desperately with mindsF
Than ever fortune hath been known to doG
The high born Vaudracour was brought by yearsH
Whose progress had a little oversteppedI
His stripling prime A town of small reputeJ
Among the vine clad mountains of AuvergneD
Was the Youth's birth place There he wooed a MaidK
Who heard the heart felt music of his suitJ
With answering vows Plebeian was the stockL
Plebeian though ingenuous the stockL
From which her graces and her honours sprungM
And hence the father of the enamoured YouthN
With haughty indignation spurned the thoughtO
Of such alliance From their cradles upP
With but a step between their several homesQ
Twins had they been in pleasure after strifeR
And petty quarrels had grown fond againD
Each other's advocate each other's stayS
And in their happiest moments not contentT
If more divided than a sportive pairU
Of sea fowl conscious both that they are hoveringV
Within the eddy of a common blastW
Or hidden only by the concave depthX
Of neighbouring billows from each other's sightY
Thus not without concurrence of an ageZ
Unknown to memory was an earnest givenD
By ready nature for a life of loveA2
For endless constancy and placid truthN
But whatsoe'er of such rare treasure layS
Reserved had fate permitted for supportB2
Of their maturer years his present mindC2
Was under fascination he beheldC2
A vision and adored the thing he sawD2
Arabian fiction never filled the worldC2
With half the wonders that were wrought for himE2
Earth breathed in one great presence of the springV
Life turned the meanest of her implementsF2
Before his eyes to price above all goldC2
The house she dwelt in was a sainted shrineD
Her chamber window did surpass in gloryE
The portals of the dawn all paradiseG2
Could by the simple opening of a doorH2
Let itself in upon him pathways walksI2
Swarmed with enchantment till his spirit sankJ2
Surcharged within him overblest to moveK2
Beneath a sun that wakes a weary worldC2
To its dull round of ordinary caresL2
A man too happy for mortalityE
So passed the time till whether through effectC2
Of some unguarded moment that dissolvedC2
Virtuous restraint ah speak it think it notC2
Deem rather that the fervent Youth who sawD2
So many bars between his present stateC2
And the dear haven where he wished to beE
In honourable wedlock with his LoveA2
Was in his judgment tempted to declineD
To perilous weakness and entrust his causeM2
To nature for a happy end of allN2
Deem that by such fond hope the Youth was swayedC2
And bear with their transgression when I addC2
That Julia wanting yet the name of wifeR
Carried about her for a secret griefO2
The promise of a motherP2
To concealQ2
The threatened shame the parents of the MaidC2
Found means to hurry her away by nightC2
And unforewarned that in some distant spotC2
She might remain shrouded in privacyE
Until the babe was born When morning cameR2
The Lover thus bereft stung with his lossS2
And all uncertain whither he should turnD
Chafed like a wild beast in the toils but soonD
Discovering traces of the fugitivesT2
Their steps he followed to the Maid's retreatC2
Easily may the sequel be divinedC2
Walks to and fro watchings at every hourP2
And the fair Captive who whene'er she mayS
Is busy at her casement as the swallowU2
Fluttering its pinions almost within reachV2
About the pendent nest did thus espyE
Her Lover thence a stolen interviewG
Accomplished under friendly shade of nightC2
I pass the raptures of the pair such themeW2
Is by innumerable poets touchedC2
In more delightful verse than skill of mineD
Could fashion chiefly by that darling bardC2
Who told of Juliet and her RomeoU2
And of the lark's note heard before its timeB
And of the streaks that laced the severing cloudsX2
In the unrelenting east Through all her courtsY2
The vacant city slept the busy windsZ2
That keep no certain intervals of restC2
Moved not meanwhile the galaxy displayedC2
Her fires that like mysterious pulses beatC2
Aloft momentous but uneasy blissA3
To their full hearts the universe seemed hungM
On that brief meeting's slender filamentC2
They parted and the generous VaudracourP2
Reached speedily the native threshold bentC2
On making so the Lovers had agreedC2
A sacrifice of birthright to attainD
A final portion from his father's handC2
Which granted Bride and Bridegroom then would fleeE
To some remote and solitary placeB3
Shady as night and beautiful as heavenD
Where they may live with no one to beholdC2
Their happiness or to disturb their loveA2
But 'now' of this no whisper not the lessC3
If ever an obtrusive word were droppedC2
Touching the matter of his passion stillD3
In his stern father's hearing VaudracourP2
Persisted openly that death aloneD
Should abrogate his human privilegeE3
Divine of swearing everlasting truthN
Upon the altar to the Maid he lovedC2
'You shall be baffled in your mad intentC2
If there be justice in the court of France 'F3
Muttered the Father From these words the YouthN
Conceived a terror and by night or dayS
Stirred nowhere without weapons that full soonD
Found dreadful provocation for at nightC2
When to his chamber he retired attemptC2
Was made to seize him by three armed menD
Acting in furtherance of the father's willD3
Under a private signet of the StateC2
One the rash Youth's ungovernable handC2
Slew and as quickly to a second gaveG3
A perilous wound he shuddered to beholdC2
The breathless corse then peacefully resignedC2
His person to the law was lodged in prisonD
And wore the fetters of a criminalH3
Have you observed a tuft of winged seedC2
That from the dandelion's naked stalkI3
Mounted aloft is suffered not to useJ3
Its natural gifts for purposes of restC2
Driven by the autumnal whirlwind to and froP2
Through the wide element or have you markedC2
The heavier substance of a leaf clad boughC
Within the vortex of a foaming floodC2
Tormented by such aid you may conceiveK3
The perturbation that ensued ah noP2
Desperate the Maid the Youth is stained with bloodC2
Unmatchable on earth is their disquietC2
Yet as the troubled seed and tortured boughC
Is Man subjected to despotic swayS
For him by private influence with the CourtC2
Was pardon gained and liberty procuredC2
But not without exaction of a pledgeL3
Which liberty and love dispersed in airP2
He flew to her from whom they would divide himE2
He clove to her who could not give him peaceM3
Yea his first word of greeting was 'All rightC2
Is gone from me my lately towering hopesN3
To the least fibre of their lowest rootC2
Are withered thou no longer canst be mineD
I thine the conscience stricken must not wooG
The unruffled Innocent I see thy faceB3
Behold thee and my misery is complete 'F3
'One are we not ' exclaimed the Maiden 'OneD
For innocence and youth for weal and woe 'F3
Then with the father's name she coupled wordsO3
Of vehement indignation but the YouthN
Checked her with filial meekness for no thoughtC2
Uncharitable crossed his mind no senseP3
Of hasty anger rising in the eclipseQ3
Of true domestic loyalty did e'erP2
Find place within his bosom Once againD
The persevering wedge of tyrannyD
Achieved their separation and once moreP2
Were they united to be yet againD
Disparted pitiable lot But hereP2
A portion of the tale may well be leftC2
In silence though my memory could addC2
Much how the Youth in scanty space of timeB
Was traversed from without much too of thoughtsR3
That occupied his days in solitudeC2
Under privation and restraint and whatC2
Through dark and shapeless fear of things to comeS3
And what through strong compunction for the pastC2
He suffered breaking down in heart and mindC2
Doomed to a third and last captivityD
His freedom he recovered on the eveK3
Of Julia's travail When the babe was bornD
Its presence tempted him to cherish schemesT3
Of future happiness 'You shall returnD
Julia ' said he 'and to your father's houseU3
Go with the child You haV3

William Wordsworth



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