Yarrow Revisited Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKLK MKNKOHPH QFRFSTUT VHWHXEBE YZA2ZB2C2D2C2 E2F2G2F2H2HF2H FEI2EJ2FK2F L2BQBM2FN2F K2BFBFBO2B N2BP2BQ2R2S2R2 T2A2F2A2F2HU2H F2F2V2F2A2F2F2F2 W2F2F2F2M2K2X2K2| The gallant Youth who may have gained | A |
| Or seeks a winsome Marrow | B |
| Was but an Infant in the lap | C |
| When first I looked on Yarrow | B |
| Once more by Newark's Castle gate | D |
| Long left without a warder | E |
| I stood looked listened and with Thee | F |
| Great Minstrel of the Border | E |
| - | |
| Grave thoughts ruled wide on that sweet day | G |
| Their dignity installing | H |
| In gentle bosoms while sere leaves | I |
| Were on the bough or falling | H |
| But breezes played and sunshine gleamed | J |
| The forest to embolden | K |
| Reddened the fiery hues and shot | L |
| Transparence through the golden | K |
| - | |
| For busy thoughts the Stream flowed on | M |
| In foamy agitation | K |
| And slept in many a crystal pool | N |
| For quiet contemplation | K |
| No public and no private care | O |
| The freeborn mind enthralling | H |
| We made a day of happy hours | P |
| Our happy days recalling | H |
| - | |
| Brisk Youth appeared the Morn of youth | Q |
| With freaks of graceful folly | F |
| Life's temperate Noon her sober Eve | R |
| Her Night not melancholy | F |
| Past present future all appeared | S |
| In harmony united | T |
| Like guests that meet and some from far | U |
| By cordial love invited | T |
| - | |
| And if as Yarrow through the woods | V |
| And down the meadow ranging | H |
| Did meet us with unaltered face | W |
| Though we were changed and changing | H |
| If then some natural shadows spread | X |
| Our inward prospect over | E |
| The soul's deep valley was not slow | B |
| Its brightness to recover | E |
| - | |
| Eternal blessings on the Muse | Y |
| And her divine employment | Z |
| The blameless Muse who trains her Sons | A2 |
| For hope and calm enjoyment | Z |
| Albeit sickness lingering yet | B2 |
| Has o'er their pillow brooded | C2 |
| And Care waylays their steps a Sprite | D2 |
| Not easily eluded | C2 |
| - | |
| For thee O Scott compelled to change | E2 |
| Green Eildon hill and Cheviot | F2 |
| For warm Vesuvio's vine clad slopes | G2 |
| And leave thy Tweed and Tiviot | F2 |
| For mild Sorrento's breezy waves | H2 |
| May classic Fancy linking | H |
| With native Fancy her fresh aid | F2 |
| Preserve thy heart from sinking | H |
| - | |
| Oh while they minister to thee | F |
| Each vying with the other | E |
| May Health return to mellow Age | I2 |
| With Strength her venturous brother | E |
| And Tiber and each brook and rill | J2 |
| Renowned in song and story | F |
| With unimagined beauty shine | K2 |
| Nor lose one ray of glory | F |
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| For Thou upon a hundred streams | L2 |
| By tales of love and sorrow | B |
| Of faithful love undaunted truth | Q |
| Hast shed the power of Yarrow | B |
| And streams unknown hills yet unseen | M2 |
| Wherever they invite Thee | F |
| At parent Nature's grateful call | N2 |
| With gladness must requite Thee | F |
| - | |
| A gracious welcome shall be thine | K2 |
| Such looks of love and honour | B |
| As thy own Yarrow gave to me | F |
| When first I gazed upon her | B |
| Beheld what I had feared to see | F |
| Unwilling to surrender | B |
| Dreams treasured up from early days | O2 |
| The holy and the tender | B |
| - | |
| And what for this frail world were all | N2 |
| That mortals do or suffer | B |
| Did no responsive harp no pen | P2 |
| Memorial tribute offer | B |
| Yea what were mighty Nature's self | Q2 |
| Her features could they win us | R2 |
| Unhelped by the poetic voice | S2 |
| That hourly speaks within us | R2 |
| - | |
| Nor deem that localized Romance | T2 |
| Plays false with our affections | A2 |
| Unsanctifies our tears made sport | F2 |
| For fanciful dejections | A2 |
| Ah no the visions of the past | F2 |
| Sustain the heart in feeling | H |
| Life as she is our changeful Life | U2 |
| With friends and kindred dealing | H |
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| Bear witness Ye whose thoughts that day | F2 |
| In Yarrow's groves were centred | F2 |
| Who through the silent portal arch | V2 |
| Of mouldering Newark entered | F2 |
| And clomb the winding stair that once | A2 |
| Too timidly was mounted | F2 |
| By the last Minstrel not the last | F2 |
| Ere he his Tale recounted | F2 |
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| Flow on for ever Yarrow Stream | W2 |
| Fulfil thy pensive duty | F2 |
| Well pleased that future Bards should chant | F2 |
| For simple hearts thy beauty | F2 |
| To dream light dear while yet unseen | M2 |
| Dear to the common sunshine | K2 |
| And dearer still as now I feel | X2 |
| To memory's shadowy moonshine | K2 |
William Wordsworth
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