Why This Volume Is So Thin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EFFEGG HIJIKK JFJFL MNMNOO| In youth I dreamed as other youths have dreamt | A |
| Of love and thrummed an amateur guitar | B |
| To verses of my own a stout attempt | C |
| To hold communion with the Evening Star | B |
| I wrote a sonnet rhymed it made it scan | D |
| Ah me how trippingly those last lines ran | D |
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| O Hesperus O happy star to bend | E |
| O'er Helen's bosom in the tranced west | F |
| To match the hours heave by upon her breast | F |
| And at her parted lip for dreams attend | E |
| If dawn defraud thee how shall I be deemed | G |
| Who house within that bosom and am dreamed | G |
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| For weeks I thought these lines remarkable | H |
| For weeks I put on airs and called myself | I |
| A bard till on a day as it befell | J |
| I took a small green Moxon from the shelf | I |
| At random opened at a casual place | K |
| And found my young illusions face to face | K |
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| With this 'Still steadfast still unchangeable | J |
| Pillow'd upon my fair Love's ripening breast | F |
| To feel for ever its soft fall and swell | J |
| Awake for ever in a sweet unrest | F |
| Still still to hear her tender taken breath | L |
| And so live ever or else swoon to death ' | - |
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| O gulf not to be crossed by taking thought | M |
| O heights by toil not to be overcome | N |
| Great Keats unto your altar straight I brought | M |
| My speech and from the shrine departed dumb | N |
| And yet sometimes I think you played it hard | O |
| Upon a rather hopeful minor bard | O |
Arthur Thomas Quiller-couch
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