Ode On Indolence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDECDE FGFGHIIHII HIHIJKLKJL MNMNOGPOGI IQIQRIIRII IIIIHCSHSC| One morn before me were three figures seen | A |
| I With bowed necks and joined hands side faced | B |
| And one behind the other stepp'd serene | A |
| In placid sandals and in white robes graced | B |
| They pass'd like figures on a marble urn | C |
| When shifted round to see the other side | D |
| They came again as when the urn once more | E |
| Is shifted round the first seen shades return | C |
| And they were strange to me as may betide | D |
| With vases to one deep in Phidian lore | E |
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| How is it Shadows that I knew ye not | F |
| How came ye muffled in so hush a masque | G |
| Was it a silent deep disguised plot | F |
| To steal away and leave without a task | G |
| My idle days Ripe was the drowsy hour | H |
| The blissful cloud of summer indolence | I |
| Benumb'd my eyes my pulse grew less and less | I |
| Pain had no sting and pleasure's wreath no flower | H |
| O why did ye not melt and leave my sense | I |
| Unhaunted quite of all but nothingness | I |
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| A third time came they by alas wherefore | H |
| My sleep had been embroider'd with dim dreams | I |
| My soul had been a lawn besprinkled o'er | H |
| With flowers and stirring shades and baffled beams | I |
| The morn was clouded but no shower fell | J |
| Tho' in her lids hung the sweet tears of May | K |
| The open casement press'd a new leav'd vine | L |
| Let in the budding warmth and throstle's lay | K |
| O Shadows 'twas a time to bid farewell | J |
| Upon your skirts had fallen no tears of mine | L |
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| A third time pass'd they by and passing turn'd | M |
| Each one the face a moment whiles to me | N |
| Then faded and to follow them I burn'd | M |
| And ached for wings because I knew the three | N |
| The first was a fair maid and Love her name | O |
| The second was Ambition pale of cheek | G |
| And ever watchful with fatigued eye | P |
| The last whom I love more the more of blame | O |
| Is heap'd upon her maiden most unmeek | G |
| I knew to be my demon Poesy | I |
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| They faded and forsooth I wanted wings | I |
| O folly What is Love and where is it | Q |
| And for that poor Ambition it springs | I |
| From a man's little heart's short fever fit | Q |
| For Poesy no she has not a joy | R |
| At least for me so sweet as drowsy noons | I |
| And evenings steep'd in honied indolence | I |
| O for an age so shelter'd from annoy | R |
| That I may never know how change the moons | I |
| Or hear the voice of busy common sense | I |
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| So ye three Ghosts adieu Ye cannot raise | I |
| My head cool bedded in the flowery grass | I |
| For I would not be dieted with praise | I |
| A pet lamb in a sentimental farce | I |
| Fade sofdy from my eyes and be once more | H |
| In masque like figures on the dreamy urn | C |
| Farewell I yet have visions for the night | S |
| And for the day faint visions there is store | H |
| Vanish ye Phantoms from my idle spright | S |
| Into the clouds and never more return | C |
John Keats
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