Lines On Seeing A Lock Of Milton's Hair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCCDBBD DBDBBBEFFGGHIHIDJJJD D DCDCKLLKDDChief of organic Numbers | A |
Old Scholar of the Spheres | B |
Thy spirit never slumbers | B |
But rolls about our ears | B |
For ever and for ever | C |
O what a mad endeavour | C |
Worketh he | D |
Who to thy sacred and ennobled hearse | B |
Would offer a burnt sacrifice of verse | B |
And Melody | D |
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How heavenward thou soundedst | D |
Live Temple of sweet noise | B |
And discord unconfoundedst | D |
Giving delight new joys | B |
And Pleasure nobler pinions | B |
O where are thy Dominions | B |
Lend thine ear | E |
To a young delian oath aye by thy soul | F |
By all that from thy mortal Lips did roll | F |
And by the Kernel of thine earthly Love | G |
Beauty in things on earth and things above | G |
When every childish fashion | H |
Has vanish'd from my rhyme | I |
Will I grey gone in passion | H |
Give to an after time | I |
Hymning and harmony | D |
Of thee and of thy Words and of thy Life | J |
But vain is now the bruning and the strife | J |
Pangs are in vain until I grow high rife | J |
With Old Philosophy | D |
And mad with glimpses at futurity | D |
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For many years my offerings must be hush'd | D |
When I do speak I'll think upon this hour | C |
Because I feel my forehead hot and flush'd | D |
Even at the simplest vassal of thy Power | C |
A Lock of thy bright hair | K |
Sudden it came | L |
And I was startled when I heard thy name | L |
Coupled so unaware | K |
Yet at the moment temperate was my blood | D |
Methought I had beheld it from the flood | D |
John Keats
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