Ode For The Keats Centenary Poem Rhyme Scheme

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The Muse is stern unto her favoured sons	A
Giving to some the keys of all the joy	B
Of the green earth but holding even that joy	B
Back from their life	C
Bidding them feed on hope	D
A plant of bitter growth	E
Deep rooted in the past	F
Truth 'tis a doubtful art	G
To make Hope sweeten	H
Time as it flows	I
For no man knows	I
Until the very last	F
Whether it be a sovereign herb that he has eaten	H
Or his own heart	G
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O stern implacable Muse	J
Giving to Keats so richly dowered	G
Only the thought that he should be	K
Among the English poets after death	L
Letting him fade with that expectancy	K
All powerless to unfold the future	M
What boots it that our age has snatched him free	K
From thy too harsh embrace	N
Has given his fame the certainty	K
Of comradeship with Shakespeare's	O
He lies alone	P
Beneath the frown of the old Roman stone	P
And the cold Roman violets	Q
And not our wildest incantation	H
Of his most sacred lines	R
Nor all the praise that sets	S
Towards his pale grave	T
Like oceans towards the moon	U
Will move the Shadow with the pensive brow	V
To break his dream	W
And give unto him now	V
One word	G
	-
When the young master reasoned	G
That our puissant England	G
Reared her great poets by neglect	G
Trampling them down in the by paths of Life	C
And fostering them with glory after death	L
Did any flame of triumph from his own fame	X
Fall swift upon his mind the glow	Y
Cast back upon the bleak and aching air	Z
Blown around his days	A2
Happily so	Y
But he whose soul was mighty as the soul	B2
Of Milton who held the vision of the world	G
As an irradiant orb self filled with light	G
Who schooled his heart with passionate control	B2
To compass knowledge to unravel the dense	C2
Web of this tangled life he would weigh slight	G
As thistledown blown from his most fairy fancy	K
That pale self glory against the mystery	K
The wonder of the various world the power	M
Of seeing great things in loneliness	D2
Where bloodroot in the clearing dwells	E2
Along the edge of snow	Y
Where trembling all their trailing bells	E2
The sensitive twinflowers blow	Y
	-
Where searching through the ferny breaks	F2
The moose fawns find the springs	G2
Where the loon laughs and diving takes	F2
Her young beneath her wings	G2
	-
Where flash the fields of arctic moss	H2
With myriad golden light	G
Where no dream shadows ever cross	H2
The lidless eyes of night	G
	-
Where cleaving a mountain storm the proud	G
Eagles the clear sky won	H
Mount the thin air between the loud	G
Slow thunder and the sun	H
	-
Where to the high tarn tranced and still	I2
No eye has ever seen	J2
Comes the first star its flame to chill	I2
In the cool deeps of green	J2
Spirit of Keats unfurl thy wings	G2
Far from the toil and press	K2
Teach us by these pure hearted things	G2
Beauty in loneliness	D2
	-
Where in the realm of thought dwell those	I
Who oft in pain and penury	K
Work in the void	G
Searching the infinite dark between the stars	L2
The infinite little of the atom	M2
Gathering the tears and terrors of this life	C
Distilling them to a medicine for the soul	B2
And hated for their thought	G
Die for it calmly	K
For not their fears	N2
Nor the cold scorn of men	O2
Fright them who hold to truth	P2
They brood alone in the intense serene	J2
Air of their passion	H
Until on some chill dawn	Q2
Breaks the immortal form foreshadowed in their dream	W
And the distracted world and men	O2
Are no more what they were	M
Spirit of Keats unfurl thy deathless wings	G2
Far from the wayward toil the vain excess	K2
Teach us by such soul haunting things	G2
Beauty in loneliness	D2
	-
The minds of men grow numb their vision narrows	I
The clogs of Empire and the dust of ages	R2
The lust of power that fogs the fairest pages	R2
Of the romance that eager life would write	G
These war on Beauty with their spears and arrows	I
But still is Beauty and of constant power	M
Even in the whirl of Time's most sordid hour	M
Banished from the great highways	A2
Afflighted by the tramp of insolent feet	G
She hangs her garlands in the by ways	A2
Lissome and sweet	G
Bending her head to hearken and learn	S2
Melody shadowed with melody	K
Softer than shadow of sea fern	S2
In the green shadowed sea	K
Then nourished by quietude	K
And if the world's mood	K
Change she may return	S2
Even lovelier than before	T2
	-
The white reflection in the mountain lake	U2
Falls from the white stream	W
Silent in the high distance	V2
The mirrored mountains guard	K
The profile of the goddess of the height	K
Floating in water with a curve of crystal light	K
When the air envious of the loveliness	V2
Rushes downward to surprise	V2
Confusion plays in the contact	K
The picture is overdrawn	Q2
With ardent ripples	V2
But when the breeze warned of intrusion	H
Draws breathless upward in flight	K
The vision reassembles in tranquillity	K
Reforming with a gesture of delight	K
Reborn with the rebirth of calm	W2
	-
Spirit of Keats lend us thy voice	V2
Breaking like surge in some enchanted cave	T
On a dream sea coast	K
To summon Beauty to her desolate world	K
For Beauty has taken refuge from our life	C
That grew too loud and wounding	X2
Beauty withdraws beyond the bitter strife	C
Beauty is gone Oh where	Z
To dwell within a precinct of pure air	Z
Where moments turn to months of solitude	K
To live on roots of fern and tips of fern	S2
On tender berries flushed with the earth's blood	K
Beauty shall stain her feet with moss	V2
And dye her cheek with deep nut juices	V2
Laving her hands in the pure sluices	V2
Where rainbows are dissolved	K
Beauty shall view herself in pools of amber sheen	J2
Dappled with peacock tints from the green screen	J2
That mingles liquid light with liquid shadow	K
Beauty shall breathe the fairy hush	Y2
With the chill orchids in their cells of shade	K
And hear the invocation of the thrush	Y2
That calls the stars into their heaven	H
And after even	Z2
Beauty shall take the night into her soul	B2
When the thrill voice goes crying through the wood	K
Oh Beauty Beauty	K
Troubling the solitude	K
With echoes from the lonely world	K
Beauty will tremble like a cloistered thing	X2
That hears temptation in the outlands singing	X2
Will steel her dedicated heart and breathe	A3
Into her inner ear to firm her vow	V
Let me restore the soul that ye have marred	K
O mortals cry no more on Beauty	K
Leave me alone lone mortals	V2
Until my shaken soul comes to its own	P
Lone mortals leave me alone	P
Oh Beauty Beauty Beauty	K
All the dim wood is silent as a dream	W
That dreams of silence	V2

Duncan Campbell Scott

Ode For The Keats Centenary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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