Ode On Beauty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFFDE GEGEFHIIFH JHJHCKLMCK ANAOPBAAPB HEHEQRKKQR| Infinite peace is hanging in the air | A |
| Infinite peace is resting on mine eyes | B |
| That just an hour ago learnt how to bear | A |
| Seeing your body's flaming harmonies | C |
| The grey clouds flecked with orange are and gold | D |
| Birds unto rest are falling falling falling | E |
| And all the earth goes slowly into night | F |
| Steadily turning from the harshly bright | F |
| Sunset And now the wind is growing cold | D |
| And in my heart a hidden voice is calling | E |
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| Say is our sense of beauty mixed with earth | G |
| When lip on lip and breast on breast we cling | E |
| When ecstasy brings short bright sobs to birth | G |
| And all our pulses both our bodies sing | E |
| When through the haze that gathers on my sight | F |
| I see your eyelids know the eyes behind | H |
| See me and half not see me when our blood | I |
| Goes roaring like a deep tremendous flood | I |
| Calm and terrific in unhasty might | F |
| Is then our inner sight sealed up and blind | H |
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| Or could it be that when our blood was colder | J |
| And side by side we sat with lips disparted | H |
| I saw the perfect line of your resting shoulder | J |
| Your mouth your peaceful throat with fuller hearted | H |
| More splendid joy Ah poignant joys all these | C |
| And rest can stab the heart as well as passion | K |
| Yea I have known sobs choke my heart to see | L |
| Your honey coloured hair move languorously | M |
| Ruffled not by my hands but by the breeze | C |
| And I have prayed the rough air for compassion | K |
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| Yea I have knelt to the unpiteous air | A |
| And knelt to gods I knew not to remove | N |
| The viewless hands whose sight I could not bear | A |
| Out of the wind blown head of her I love | O |
| Ecstasy enters me and cannot speak | P |
| Seizes my hands and smites my fainting eyes | B |
| And sends through all my veins a dim despair | A |
| Of never apprehending all so fair | A |
| And I have stood unnerved and numb and weak | P |
| Watching your breathing bosom fall and rise | B |
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| Ah no This joy is empty incomplete | H |
| And sullied with a sense of too much longing | E |
| Where thoughts and fancies sweet and bitter sweet | H |
| And old regrets and new born hopes come thronging | E |
| Man can see beauty for a moment's space | Q |
| And live having seen her with an unfilmed eye | R |
| If all his body and all his soul in one | K |
| Instant are tuned by passion to unison | K |
| And I can image in your kissing face | Q |
| The eternal meaning of the earth and sky | R |
Edward Shanks
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