To John Keats, Poet, At Spring Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEE AFAFAGGHGHGGII JAJAAKAKLMNM OOPPQQRRSS

I cannot hold my peace John KeatsA
There never was a spring like thisB
It is an echo that repeatsA
My last year's song and next year's blissB
I know in spite of all men sayC
Of Beauty you have felt her mostD
Yea even in your grave her wayC
Is laid Poor troubled lyric ghostD
Spring never was so fair and dearE
As Beauty makes her seem this yearE
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I cannot hold my peace John KeatsA
I am as helpless in the toilF
Of Spring as any lamb that bleatsA
To feel the solid earth recoilF
Beneath his puny legs Spring beatsA
her tocsin call to those who love herG
And lo the dogwood petals coverG
Her breast with drifts of snow and sleekH
White gulls fly screaming to her and hoverG
About her shoulders and kiss her cheekH
While white and purple lilacs musterG
A strength that bears them to a clusterG
Of color and odor for her sakeI
All things that slept are now awakeI
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And you and I shall we lie stillJ
John Keats while Beauty summons usA
Somehow I feel your sensitive willJ
Is pulsing up some tremulousA
Sap road of a maple tree whose leavesA
Grow music as they grow since yourK
Wild voice is in them a harp that grievesA
For life that opens death's dark doorK
Though dust your fingers still can pushL
The Vision Splendid to a birthM
Though now they work as grass in the hushN
Of the night on the broad sweet page of the earthM
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'John Keats is dead ' they say but IO
Who hear your full insistent cryO
In bud and blossom leaf and treeP
Know John Keats still writes poetryP
And while my head is earthward bowedQ
To read new life sprung from your shroudQ
Folks seeing me must think it strangeR
That merely spring should so derangeR
My mind They do not know that youS
John Keats keep revel with me tooS

Countee Cullen



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