Extracts From An Opera Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJ KKLL MMNN OOKK P MQMQRQRQSQSQTQUQIQIQ VVWQVEVMVM M XYEY ZYVY IQIQ A2SB2S WSVFC2D2HO were I one of the Olympian twelve | A |
Their godships should pass this into law | B |
That when a man doth set himself in toil | C |
After some beauty veiled far away | D |
Each step he took should make his lady's hand | E |
More soft more white and her fair cheek more fair | F |
And for each briar berry he might eat | G |
A kiss should bud upon the tree of love | H |
And pulp and ripen richer every hour | I |
To melt away upon the traveller's lips | J |
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The sun with his great eye | K |
Sees not so much as I | K |
And the moon all silve proud | L |
Might as well be in a cloud | L |
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And O the spring the spring | M |
I lead the life of a king | M |
Couch'd in the teeming grass | N |
I spy each pretty lass | N |
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I look where no one dares | O |
And I stare where no one stares | O |
And when the night is nigh | K |
Lambs bleat my lullaby | K |
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Folly's Song | P |
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When wedding fiddles are a playing | M |
Huzza for folly O | Q |
And when maidens go a Maying | M |
Huzza for folly O | Q |
When a milk pail is upset | R |
Huzza for folly O | Q |
And the clothes left in the wet | R |
Huzza for folly O | Q |
When the barrel's set abroach | S |
Huzza for folly O | Q |
When Kate Eyebrow keeps a coach | S |
Huzza for folly O | Q |
When the pig is over roasted | T |
Huzza for folly O | Q |
And the cheese is over toasted | U |
Huzza for folly O | Q |
When Sir Snap is with his lawyer | I |
Huzza for folly O | Q |
And Miss Chap has kiss'd the sawyer | I |
Huzza for folly O | Q |
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Oh I am frighten'd with most hateful thoughts | V |
Perhaps her voice is not a nightingale's | V |
Perhaps her teeth are not the fairest pearl | W |
Her eye lashes may be for aught I know | Q |
Not longer than the May fly's small fan horns | V |
There may not be one dimple on her hand | E |
And freckles many ah a careless nurse | V |
In haste to teach the little thing to walk | M |
May have crumpt up a pair of Dian's legs | V |
And warpt the ivory of a Juno's neck | M |
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Song | M |
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The stranger lighted from his steed | X |
And ere he spake a word | Y |
He seiz'd my lady's lily hand | E |
And kiss'd it all unheard | Y |
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The stranger walk'd into the hall | Z |
And ere he spake a word | Y |
He kiss'd my lady's cherry lips | V |
And kiss'd 'em all unheard | Y |
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The stranger walk'd into the bower | I |
But my lady first did go | Q |
Aye hand in hand into the bower | I |
Where my lord's roses blow | Q |
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My lady's maid had a silken scarf | A2 |
And a golden ring had she | S |
And a kiss from the stranger as off he went | B2 |
Again on his fair palfrey | S |
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Asleep O sleep a little while white pearl | W |
And let me kneel and let me pray to thee | S |
And let me call Heaven s blessing on thine eyes | V |
And let me breathe into the happy air | F |
That doth enfold and touch thee all about | C2 |
Vows of my slavery my giving up | D2 |
My sudden adoration my great love | H |
John Keats
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