Ode On A Grecian Urn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFGDH FIFJKLMKML FFFFNFONFO PFQFRSTRSU FFFFVFWFXW| Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness | A |
| Thou foster child of silence and slow time | B |
| Sylvan historian who canst thus express | C |
| A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme | B |
| What leaf fring'd legend haunts about thy shape | D |
| Of deities or mortals or of both | E |
| In Tempe or the dales of Arcady | F |
| What men or gods are these What maidens loth | G |
| What mad pursuit What struggle to escape | D |
| What pipes and timbrels What wild ecstasy | H |
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| Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard | F |
| Are sweeter therefore ye soft pipes play on | I |
| Not to the sensual ear but more endear'd | F |
| Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone | J |
| Fair youth beneath the trees thou canst not leave | K |
| Thy song nor ever can those trees be bare | L |
| Bold Lover never never canst thou kiss | M |
| Though winning near the goal yet do not grieve | K |
| She cannot fade though thou hast not thy bliss | M |
| For ever wilt thou love and she be fair | L |
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| Ah happy happy boughs that cannot shed | F |
| Your leaves nor ever bid the Spring adieu | F |
| And happy melodist unwearied | F |
| For ever piping songs for ever new | F |
| More happy love more happy happy love | N |
| For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd | F |
| For ever panting and for ever young | O |
| All breathing human passion far above | N |
| That leaves a heart high sorrowful and cloy'd | F |
| A burning forehead and a parching tongue | O |
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| Who are these coming to the sacrifice | P |
| To what green altar O mysterious priest | F |
| Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies | Q |
| And all her silken flanks with garlands drest | F |
| What little town by river or sea shore | R |
| Or mountain built with peaceful citadel | S |
| Is emptied of this folk this pious morn | T |
| And little town thy streets for evermore | R |
| Will silent be and not a soul to tell | S |
| Why thou art desolate can e'er return | U |
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| O Attic shape Fair attitude with brede | F |
| Of marble men and maidens overwrought | F |
| With forest branches and the trodden weed | F |
| Thou silent form dost tease us out of thought | F |
| As doth eternity Cold Pastoral | V |
| When old age shall this generation waste | F |
| Thou shalt remain in midst of other woe | W |
| Than ours a friend to man to whom thou say'st | F |
| Beauty is truth truth beauty that is all | X |
| Ye know on earth and all ye need to know | W |
John Keats
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