Ode To A Nightingale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDECEE FGHGIHJIHJ KHKHEELEEL MEEENHENHE OEOEPHEPHE QRQRSHTEHU VHVHWXHWXH YZYZEA2B2EA2B2My heart aches and a drowsy numbness pains | A |
My sense as though of hemlock I had drunk | B |
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains | A |
One minute past and Lethe wards had sunk | B |
'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot | C |
But being too happy in thine happiness | D |
That thou light winged Dryad of the trees | E |
In some melodious plot | C |
Of beechen green and shadows numberless | E |
Singest of summer in full throated ease | E |
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O for a draught of vintage that hath been | F |
Cool'd a long age in the deep delved earth | G |
Tasting of Flora and the country green | H |
Dance and Proven ccedil al song and sunburnt mirth | G |
O for a beaker full of the warm South | I |
Full of the true the blushful Hippocrene | H |
With beaded bubbles winking at the brim | J |
And purple stained mouth | I |
That I might drink and leave the world unseen | H |
And with thee fade away into the forest dim | J |
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Fade far away dissolve and quite forget | K |
What thou among the leaves hast never known | H |
The weariness the fever and the fret | K |
Here where men sit and hear each other groan | H |
Where palsy shakes a few sad last gray hairs | E |
Where youth grows pale and spectre thin and dies | E |
Where but to think is to be full of sorrow | L |
And leaden eyed despairs | E |
Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes | E |
Or new Love pine at them beyond to morrow | L |
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Away away for I will fly to thee | M |
Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards | E |
But on the viewless wings of Poesy | E |
Though the dull brain perplexes and retards | E |
Already with thee tender is the night | N |
And haply the Queen Moon is on her throne | H |
Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays | E |
But here there is no light | N |
Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown | H |
Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways | E |
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I cannot see what flowers are at my feet | O |
Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs | E |
But in embalmed darkness guess each sweet | O |
Wherewith the seasonable month endows | E |
The grass the thicket and the fruit tree wild | P |
White hawthorn and the pastoral eglantine | H |
Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves | E |
And mid May's eldest child | P |
The coming musk rose full of dewy wine | H |
The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves | E |
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Darkling I listen and for many a time | Q |
I have been half in love with easeful Death | R |
Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme | Q |
To take into the air my quiet breath | R |
Now more than ever seems it rich to die | S |
To cease upon the midnight with no pain | H |
While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad | T |
In such an ecstasy | E |
Still wouldst thou sing and I have ears in vain | H |
To thy high requiem become a sod | U |
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Thou wast not born for death immortal Bird | V |
No hungry generations tread thee down | H |
The voice I hear this passing night was heard | V |
In ancient days by emperor and clown | H |
Perhaps the self same song that found a path | W |
Through the sad heart of Ruth when sick for home | X |
She stood in tears amid the alien corn | H |
The same that oft times hath | W |
Charm'd magic casements opening on the foam | X |
Of perilous seas in faery lands forlorn | H |
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Forlorn the very word is like a bell | Y |
To toll me back from thee to my sole self | Z |
Adieu the fancy cannot cheat so well | Y |
As she is fam'd to do deceiving elf | Z |
Adieu adieu thy plaintive anthem fades | E |
Past the near meadows over the still stream | A2 |
Up the hill side and now 'tis buried deep | B2 |
In the next valley glades | E |
Was it a vision or a waking dream | A2 |
Fled is that music Do I wake or sleep | B2 |
John Keats
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