La Belle Dame Sans Merci Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB ADED FGHG IJAJ KLBL MDND OGMG MPQP RMMM MSRS TMUM UBCB

Ah what can ail thee wretched wightA
Alone and palely loiteringB
The sedge is wither'd from the lakeC
And no birds singB
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Ah what can ail thee wretched wightA
So haggard and so woe begoneD
The squirrel's granary is fullE
And the harvest's doneD
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I see a lily on thy browF
With anguish moist and fever dewG
And on thy cheek a fading roseH
Fast withereth tooG
-
I met a lady in the meadsI
Full beautiful a faery's childJ
Her hair was long her foot was lightA
And her eyes were wildJ
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I set her on my pacing steedK
And nothing else saw all day longL
For sideways would she lean and singB
A faery's songL
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I made a garland for her headM
And bracelets too and fragrant zoneD
She look'd at me as she did loveN
And made sweet moanD
-
She found me roots of relish sweetO
And honey wild and manna dewG
And sure in language strange she saidM
I love thee trueG
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She took me to her elfin grotM
And there she gaz'd and sighed deepP
And there I shut her wild sad eyesQ
So kiss'd to sleepP
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And there we slumber'd on the mossR
And there I dream'd ah woe betideM
The latest dream I ever dream'dM
On the cold hill sideM
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I saw pale kings and princes tooM
Pale warriors death pale were they allS
Who cry'd La belle Dame sans merciR
Hath thee in thrallS
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I saw their starv'd lips in the gloamT
With horrid warning gaped wideM
And I awoke and found me hereU
On the cold hill sideM
-
And this is why I sojourn hereU
Alone and palely loiteringB
Though the sedge is wither'd from the lakeC
And no birds singB

John Keats



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