I Stood Tip-toe Upon A Little Hill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEECCFFGHIIJJ CCHHKKHH LLLLCC KKHHCCCCDDAK CCCCMMCCAA KKCC CCCCKKCCNNCCCCAAKKOP CCQRCCSSTTCCUUVVCCKK WWKKXXCCYYJJIIKKCCCC JJCCKKXXKKCCCCZZCCKH KKCCCCZZXX KKCCKKKKKKXX JJKKAAJJKKCCA2B2KHI stood tip toe upon a little hill | A |
The air was cooling and so very still | A |
That the sweet buds which with a modest pride | B |
Pull droopingly in slanting curve aside | B |
Their scantly leaved and finely tapering stems | C |
Had not yet lost those starry diadems | C |
Caught from the early sobbing of the morn | D |
The clouds were pure and white as flocks new shorn | D |
And fresh from the clear brook sweetly they slept | E |
On the blue fields of heaven and then there crept | E |
A little noiseless noise among the leaves | C |
Born of the very sigh that silence heaves | C |
For not the faintest motion could be seen | F |
Of all the shades that slanted o er the green | F |
There was wide wand ring for the greediest eye | G |
To peer about upon variety | H |
Far round the horizon s crystal air to skim | I |
And trace the dwindled edgings of its brim | I |
To picture out the quaint and curious bending | J |
Of a fresh woodland alley never ending | J |
Or by the bowery clefts and leafy shelves | C |
Guess where the jaunty streams refresh themselves | C |
I gazed awhile and felt as light and free | H |
As though the fanning wings of Mercury | H |
Had played upon my heels I was light hearted | K |
And many pleasures to my vision started | K |
So I straightway began to pluck a posey | H |
Of luxuries bright milky soft and rosy | H |
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A bush of May flowers with the bees about them | L |
Ah sure no tasteful nook would be without them | L |
And let a lush laburnum oversweep them | L |
And let long grass grow round the roots to keep them | L |
Moist cool and green and shade the violets | C |
That they may bind the moss in leafy nets | C |
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A filbert hedge with wildbriar overtwined | K |
And clumps of woodbine taking the soft wind | K |
Upon their summer thrones there too should be | H |
The frequent chequer of a youngling tree | H |
That with a score of light green breth r en shoots | C |
From the quaint mossiness of aged roots | C |
Round which is heard a spring head of clear waters | C |
Babbling so wildly of its lovely daughters | C |
The spreading blue bells it may haply mourn | D |
That such fair clusters should be rudely torn | D |
From their fresh beds and scattered thoughtlessly | A |
By infant hands left on the path to die | K |
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Open afresh your round of starry folds | C |
Ye ardent marigolds | C |
Dry up the moisture from your golden lids | C |
For great Apollo bids | C |
That in these days your praises should be sung | M |
On many harps which he has lately strung | M |
And when again your dewiness he kisses | C |
Tell him I have you in my world of blisses | C |
So haply when I rove in some far vale | A |
His mighty voice may come upon the gale | A |
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Here are sweet peas on tip toe for a flight | K |
With wings of gentle flush o er delicate white | K |
And taper fingers catching at all things | C |
To bind them all about with tiny rings | C |
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Linger awhile upon some bending planks | C |
That lean against a streamlet s rushy banks | C |
And watch intently Nature s gentle doings | C |
They will be found softer than ring dove s cooings | C |
How silent comes the water round that bend | K |
Not the minutest whisper does it send | K |
To the o erhanging sallows blades of grass | C |
Slowly across the chequer d shadows pass | C |
Why you might read two sonnets ere they reach | N |
To where the hurrying freshnesses aye preach | N |
A natural sermon o er their pebbly beds | C |
Where swarms of minnows show their little heads | C |
Staying their wavy bodies gainst the streams | C |
To taste the luxury of sunny beams | C |
Temper d with coolness How they ever wrestle | A |
With their own sweet delight and ever nestle | A |
Their silver bellies on the pebbly sand | K |
If you but scantily hold out the hand | K |
That very instant not one will remain | O |
But turn your eye and they are there again | P |
The ripples seem right glad to reach those cresses | C |
And cool themselves among the em rald tresses | C |
The while they cool themselves they freshness give | Q |
And moisture that the bowery green may live | R |
So keeping up an interchange of favours | C |
Like good men in the truth of their behaviours | C |
Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop | S |
From low hung branches little space they stop | S |
But sip and twitter and their feathers sleek | T |
Then off at once as in a wanton freak | T |
Or perhaps to show their black and golden wings | C |
Pausing upon their yellow flutterings | C |
Were I in such a place I sure should pray | U |
That nought less sweet might call my thoughts away | U |
Than the soft rustle of a maiden s gown | V |
Fanning away the dandelion s down | V |
Than the light music of her nimble toes | C |
Patting against the sorrel as she goes | C |
How she would start and blush thus to be caught | K |
Playing in all her innocence of thought | K |
O let me lead her gently o er the brook | W |
Watch her half smiling lips and downward look | W |
O let me for one moment touch her wrist | K |
Let me one moment to her breathing list | K |
And as she leaves me may she often turn | X |
Her fair eyes looking through her locks auburne | X |
What next A tuft of evening primroses | C |
O er which the mind may hover till it dozes | C |
O er which it well might take a pleasant sleep | Y |
But that tis ever startled by the leap | Y |
Of buds into ripe flowers or by the flitting | J |
Of diverse moths that aye their rest are quitting | J |
Or by the moon lifting her silver rim | I |
Above a cloud and with a gradual swim | I |
Coming into the blue with all her light | K |
O Maker of sweet poets dear delight | K |
Of this fair world and all its gentle livers | C |
Spangler of clouds halo of crystal rivers | C |
Mingler with leaves and dew and tumbling streams | C |
Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams | C |
Lover of loneliness and wandering | J |
Of upcast eye and tender pondering | J |
Thee must I praise above all other glories | C |
That smile us on to tell delightful stories | C |
For what has made the sage or poet write | K |
But the fair paradise of Nature s light | K |
In the calm grandeur of a sober line | X |
We see the waving of the mountain pine | X |
And when a tale is beautifully staid | K |
We feel the safety of a hawthorn glade | K |
When it is moving on luxurious wings | C |
The soul is lost in pleasant smotherings | C |
Fair dewy roses brush against our faces | C |
And flowering laurels spring from diamond vases | C |
O erhead we see the jasmine and sweet briar | Z |
And bloomy grapes laughing from green attire | Z |
While at our feet the voice of crystal bubbles | C |
Charms us at once away from all our troubles | C |
So that we feel uplifted from the world | K |
Walking upon the white clouds wreath d and curl d | H |
So felt he who first told how Psyche went | K |
On the smooth wind to realms of wonderment | K |
What Psyche felt and Love when their full lips | C |
First touch d what amorous and fondling nips | C |
They gave each other s cheeks with all their sighs | C |
And how they kist each other s tremulous eyes | C |
The silver lamp the ravishment the wonder | Z |
The darkness loneliness the fearful thunder | Z |
Their woes gone by and both to heaven upflown | X |
To bow for gratitude before Jove s throne | X |
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So did he feel who pull d the boughs aside | K |
That we might look into a forest wide | K |
To catch a glimpse of Fawns and Dryades | C |
Coming with softest rustle through the trees | C |
And garlands woven of flowers wild and sweet | K |
Upheld on ivory wrists or sporting feet | K |
Telling us how fair trembling Syrinx fled | K |
Arcadian Pan with such a fearful dread | K |
Poor Nymph poor Pan how did he weep to find | K |
Nought but a lovely sighing of the wind | K |
Along the reedy stream a half heard strain | X |
Full of sweet desolation balmy pain | X |
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What first inspired a bard of old to sing | J |
Narcissus pining o er the untainted spring | J |
In some delicious ramble he had found | K |
A little space with boughs all woven round | K |
And in the midst of all a clearer pool | A |
Than e er reflected in its pleasant cool | A |
The blue sky here and there serenely peeping | J |
Through tendril wreaths fantastically creeping | J |
And on the bank a lonely flower he spied | K |
A meek and forlorn flower with naught of pride | K |
Drooping its beauty o er the watery clearness | C |
To woo its own sad image into nearness | C |
Deaf to light Zephyrus it would not move | A2 |
But still would seem to droop to pine to love | B2 |
So while the Poet stood in this sweet spot | K |
Some fainter g | H |
John Keats
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