To John Keats, Poet, At Spring Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEE AFAFAGGHGHGGII JAJAAKAKLMNM OOPPQQRRSSI cannot hold my peace John Keats | A |
There never was a spring like this | B |
It is an echo that repeats | A |
My last year's song and next year's bliss | B |
I know in spite of all men say | C |
Of Beauty you have felt her most | D |
Yea even in your grave her way | C |
Is laid Poor troubled lyric ghost | D |
Spring never was so fair and dear | E |
As Beauty makes her seem this year | E |
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I cannot hold my peace John Keats | A |
I am as helpless in the toil | F |
Of Spring as any lamb that bleats | A |
To feel the solid earth recoil | F |
Beneath his puny legs Spring beats | A |
her tocsin call to those who love her | G |
And lo the dogwood petals cover | G |
Her breast with drifts of snow and sleek | H |
White gulls fly screaming to her and hover | G |
About her shoulders and kiss her cheek | H |
While white and purple lilacs muster | G |
A strength that bears them to a cluster | G |
Of color and odor for her sake | I |
All things that slept are now awake | I |
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And you and I shall we lie still | J |
John Keats while Beauty summons us | A |
Somehow I feel your sensitive will | J |
Is pulsing up some tremulous | A |
Sap road of a maple tree whose leaves | A |
Grow music as they grow since your | K |
Wild voice is in them a harp that grieves | A |
For life that opens death's dark door | K |
Though dust your fingers still can push | L |
The Vision Splendid to a birth | M |
Though now they work as grass in the hush | N |
Of the night on the broad sweet page of the earth | M |
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'John Keats is dead ' they say but I | O |
Who hear your full insistent cry | O |
In bud and blossom leaf and tree | P |
Know John Keats still writes poetry | P |
And while my head is earthward bowed | Q |
To read new life sprung from your shroud | Q |
Folks seeing me must think it strange | R |
That merely spring should so derange | R |
My mind They do not know that you | S |
John Keats keep revel with me too | S |
Countee Cullen
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