When Severn's Sweeping Flood Had Overthrown Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABABCADEDEDEWhen Severn's sweeping flood had overthrown | A |
St Mary's Church the preacher then would cry | B |
Thus Christian people God his might hath shown | A |
That ye to him your love may testify | B |
Haste and rebuild the pile But not a stone | A |
Resumed its place Age after age went by | B |
And Heaven still lacked its due though piety | C |
In secret did we trust her loss bemoan | A |
But now her Spirit hath put forth its claim | D |
In Power and Poesy would lend her voice | E |
Let the new Church be worthy of its aim | D |
That in its beauty Cardiff may rejoice | E |
Oh in the past if cause there was for shame | D |
Let not our times halt in their better choice | E |
William Wordsworth
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