Endymion: A Poetic Romance (excerpt) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEEFFGHIIJJDDJ JKKDD JJIILMNNN NIIIIIIIIJJOOJJNNJJP PNNNNJJNN| BOOK I | A |
| A thing of beauty is a joy for ever | B |
| Its loveliness increases it will never | B |
| Pass into nothingness but still will keep | C |
| A bower quiet for us and a sleep | C |
| Full of sweet dreams and health and quiet breathing | D |
| Therefore on every morrow are we wreathing | D |
| A flowery band to bind us to the earth | E |
| Spite of despondence of the inhuman dearth | E |
| Of noble natures of the gloomy days | F |
| Of all the unhealthy and o'er darkened ways | F |
| Made for our searching yes in spite of all | G |
| Some shape of beauty moves away the pall | H |
| From our dark spirits Such the sun the moon | I |
| Trees old and young sprouting a shady boon | I |
| For simple sheep and such are daffodils | J |
| With the green world they live in and clear rills | J |
| That for themselves a cooling covert make | D |
| 'Gainst the hot season the mid forest brake | D |
| Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk rose blooms | J |
| And such too is the grandeur of the dooms | J |
| We have imagined for the mighty dead | K |
| All lovely tales that we have heard or read | K |
| An endless fountain of immortal drink | D |
| Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink | D |
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| Nor do we merely feel these essences | J |
| For one short hour no even as the trees | J |
| That whisper round a temple become soon | I |
| Dear as the temple's self so does the moon | I |
| The passion poesy glories infinite | L |
| Haunt us till they become a cheering light | M |
| Unto our souls and bound to us so fast | N |
| That whether there be shine or gloom o'ercast | N |
| They always must be with us or we die | N |
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| Therefore 'tis with full happiness that I | N |
| Will trace the story of Endymion | I |
| The very music of the name has gone | I |
| Into my being and each pleasant scene | I |
| Is growing fresh before me as the green | I |
| Of our own valleys so I will begin | I |
| Now while I cannot hear the city's din | I |
| Now while the early budders are just new | I |
| And run in mazes of the youngest hue | I |
| About old forests while the willow trails | J |
| Its delicate amber and the dairy pails | J |
| Bring home increase of milk And as the year | O |
| Grows lush in juicy stalks I'll smoothly steer | O |
| My little boat for many quiet hours | J |
| With streams that deepen freshly into bowers | J |
| Many and many a verse I hope to write | N |
| Before the daisies vermeil rimm'd and white | N |
| Hide in deep herbage and ere yet the bees | J |
| Hum about globes of clover and sweet peas | J |
| I must be near the middle of my story | P |
| O may no wintry season bare and hoary | P |
| See it half finish'd but let Autumn bold | N |
| With universal tinge of sober gold | N |
| Be all about me when I make an end | N |
| And now at once adventuresome I send | N |
| My herald thought into a wilderness | J |
| There let its trumpet blow and quickly dress | J |
| My uncertain path with green that I may speed | N |
| Easily onward thorough flowers and weed | N |
John Keats
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