Ode On Melancholy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDECEE EFEFGHCGHI JKJKLBMBLM| No no go not to Lethe neither twist | A |
| Wolf's bane tight rooted for its poisonous wine | B |
| Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss'd | A |
| By nightshade ruby grape of Proserpine | B |
| Make not your rosary of yew berries | C |
| Nor let the beetle nor the death moth be | D |
| Your mournful Psyche nor the downy owl | E |
| A partner in your sorrow's mysteries | C |
| For shade to shade will come too drowsily | E |
| And drown the wakeful anguish of the soul | E |
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| But when the melancholy fit shall fall | E |
| Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud | F |
| That fosters the droop headed flowers all | E |
| And hides the green hill in an April shroud | F |
| Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose | G |
| Or on the rainbow of the salt sand wave | H |
| Or on the wealth of globed peonies | C |
| Or if thy mistress some rich anger shows | G |
| Emprison her soft hand and let her rave | H |
| And feed deep deep upon her peerless eyes | I |
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| She dwells with Beauty Beauty that must die | J |
| And Joy whose hand is ever at his lips | K |
| Bidding adieu and aching Pleasure nigh | J |
| Turning to poison while the bee mouth sips | K |
| Ay in the very temple of Delight | L |
| Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine | B |
| Though seen of none save him whose strenuous tongue | M |
| Can burst Joy's grape against his palate fine | B |
| His soul shalt taste the sadness of her might | L |
| And be among her cloudy trophies hung | M |
John Keats
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