Remembrance of Nature
O Nature! thou didst rear me for thine own,With thy free singing-birds and mountain-brooks;Feeding my thoughts in primrose-haunted nooks,With fairy fantasies and wood-dreams lone;And thou didst teach me every wandering toneDrawn from thy many-whispering trees and waves,And guide my steps to founts and sparry caves,And where bright mosses wove thee a rich throneMidst the green hills: and now that, far estrangedFrom all sweet sounds and odours of thy breath,Fading I lie, within my heart unchanged,So glows the love of thee, that not for deathSeems that pure passion’s fervour--but ordain’dTo meet on brighter shores thy majesty unstain’d.
Words in this poem
- didst
- , the 2d pers. sing. imp. of Do.
- haunted a.
- Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions; frequented by a ghost.
- lone n.
- A lane. See Loanin.
- sparry a.
- Resembling spar, or consisting of spar; abounding with spar; having a confused crystalline structure; spathose. Sparry iron (Min.), siderite. See Siderite (a). [From Spar.]
- wove
- p. pr. & rare vb. n. of Weave.
- fading n.
- An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song.
- fervour n.
- Heat; excessive warmth. [OF. fervor, fervour, F. ferveur, L. fervor, fr. fervere. See Fervent.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Remembrance of Nature is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Poems of Felicia Hemans, Project Gutenberg ebook #66785; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Felicia Hemans, Remembrance of Nature, in Poems (1808–1835), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #66785, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/hemans-poems/remembrance-of-nature.html, id L19832.
Form and metre
Remembrance of Nature is 14 lines in a single stanza. It rhymes ABBAACCADEDEFF. The metre is iambic pentameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 84%).
See other poems in iambic pentameter.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 ABBAACCADEDEFF ownA · brooksB · nooksB · loneA · toneA · wavesC · cavesC · throneA · estrangedD · breathE · unchangedD · deathE · ordain'dF · unstain'dF
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against iambic pentameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| O Nature! thou didst rear me for thine own, | 10 | ·/˘······· |
| With thy free singing-birds and mountain-brooks; | 10 | ···/˘··/˘· |
| Feeding my thoughts in primrose-haunted nooks, | 10 | /˘···/·/˘· |
| With fairy fantasies and wood-dreams lone; | 10 | ·/˘/˘˘···· |
| And thou didst teach me every wandering tone | 10 | ·····/˘/˘· |
| Drawn from thy many-whispering trees and waves, | 10 | ···//˘˘··· |
| And guide my steps to founts and sparry caves, | 10 | ·······/˘· |
| And where bright mosses wove thee a rich throne | 10 | ···/˘····· |
| Midst the green hills: and now that, far estranged | 10 | ········˘/ |
| From all sweet sounds and odours of thy breath, | 10 | ·····/˘··· |
| Fading I lie, within my heart unchanged, | 10 | /˘······˘/ |
| So glows the love of thee, that not for death | 10 | ·········· |
| Seems that pure passion’s fervour--but ordain’d | 10 | ···/˘/˘·˘/ |
| To meet on brighter shores thy majesty unstain’d. | 10 | ···/··/˘˘/ |
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