Endymion (excerpts) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGHIIJJDDJJ KKDDJJIILMNNNNIIIIII IIJJOOJJNNJJPPNNNNJJ NNFrom BOOK I | A |
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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 |
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 |
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 |
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John Keats
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