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 wight | A |
| Alone and palely loitering | B |
| The sedge is wither'd from the lake | C |
| And no birds sing | B |
| - | |
| Ah what can ail thee wretched wight | A |
| So haggard and so woe begone | D |
| The squirrel's granary is full | E |
| And the harvest's done | D |
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| I see a lily on thy brow | F |
| With anguish moist and fever dew | G |
| And on thy cheek a fading rose | H |
| Fast withereth too | G |
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| I met a lady in the meads | I |
| Full beautiful a faery's child | J |
| Her hair was long her foot was light | A |
| And her eyes were wild | J |
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| I set her on my pacing steed | K |
| And nothing else saw all day long | L |
| For sideways would she lean and sing | B |
| A faery's song | L |
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| I made a garland for her head | M |
| And bracelets too and fragrant zone | D |
| She look'd at me as she did love | N |
| And made sweet moan | D |
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| She found me roots of relish sweet | O |
| And honey wild and manna dew | G |
| And sure in language strange she said | M |
| I love thee true | G |
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| She took me to her elfin grot | M |
| And there she gaz'd and sighed deep | P |
| And there I shut her wild sad eyes | Q |
| So kiss'd to sleep | P |
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| And there we slumber'd on the moss | R |
| And there I dream'd ah woe betide | M |
| The latest dream I ever dream'd | M |
| On the cold hill side | M |
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| I saw pale kings and princes too | M |
| Pale warriors death pale were they all | S |
| Who cry'd La belle Dame sans merci | R |
| Hath thee in thrall | S |
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| I saw their starv'd lips in the gloam | T |
| With horrid warning gaped wide | M |
| And I awoke and found me here | U |
| On the cold hill side | M |
| - | |
| And this is why I sojourn here | U |
| Alone and palely loitering | B |
| Though the sedge is wither'd from the lake | C |
| And no birds sing | B |
John Keats
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