Lines On Seeing A Lock Of Milton's Hair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCCDBBD DBDBBBEFFGGHIHIDJJJD D DCDCKLLKDD| Chief 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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