Ode To Psyche Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFEGHIG GIJGGKKLGLG MDMNIOIOGPGP QRQKGSTGIOGPGP IGIGUVUVWXIYIYGIGI| O Goddess hear these tuneless numbers wrung | A |
| By sweet enforcement and remembrance dear | B |
| And pardon that thy secrets should be sung | A |
| Even into thine own soft conched ear | C |
| Surely I dreamt to day or did I see | D |
| The winged Psyche with awaken'd eyes | E |
| I wander'd in a forest thoughtlessly | F |
| And on the sudden fainting with surprise | E |
| Saw two fair creatures couched side by side | G |
| In deepest grass beneath the whisp'ring roof | H |
| Of leaves and trembled blossoms where there ran | I |
| A brooklet scarce espied | G |
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| Mid hush'd cool rooted flowers fragrant eyed | G |
| Blue silver white and budded Tyrian | I |
| They lay calm breathing on the bedded grass | J |
| Their arms embraced and their pinions too | G |
| Their lips touch'd not but had not bade adieu | G |
| As if disjoined by soft handed slumber | K |
| And ready still past kisses to outnumber | K |
| At tender eye dawn of aurorean love | L |
| The winged boy I knew | G |
| But who wast thou O happy happy dove | L |
| His Psyche true | G |
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| O latest born and loveliest vision far | M |
| Of all Olympus' faded hierarchy | D |
| Fairer than Ph oe be's sapphire region'd star | M |
| Or Vesper amorous glow worm of the sky | N |
| Fairer than these though temple thou hast none | I |
| Nor altar heap'd with flowers | O |
| Nor virgin choir to make delicious moan | I |
| Upon the midnight hours | O |
| No voice no lute no pipe no incense sweet | G |
| From chain swung censer teeming | P |
| No shrine no grove no oracle no heat | G |
| Of pale mouth'd prophet dreaming | P |
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| O brightest though too late for antique vows | Q |
| Too too late for the fond believing lyre | R |
| When holy were the haunted forest boughs | Q |
| Holy the air the water and the fire | K |
| Yet even in these days so far retir'd | G |
| From happy pieties thy lucent fans | S |
| Fluttering among the faint Olympians | T |
| I see and sing by my own eyes inspir'd | G |
| So let me be thy choir and make a moan | I |
| Upon the midnight hours | O |
| Thy voice thy lute thy pipe thy incense sweet | G |
| From swinged censer teeming | P |
| Thy shrine thy grove thy oracle thy heat | G |
| Of pale mouth'd prophet dreaming | P |
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| Yes I will be thy priest and build a fane | I |
| In some untrodden region of my mind | G |
| Where branched thoughts new grown with pleasant pain | I |
| Instead of pines shall murmur in the wind | G |
| Far far around shall those dark cluster'd trees | U |
| Fledge the wild ridged mountains steep by steep | V |
| And there by zephyrs streams and birds and bees | U |
| The moss lain Dryads shall be lull'd to sleep | V |
| And in the midst of this wide quietness | W |
| A rosy sanctuary will I dress | X |
| With the wreath'd trellis of a working brain | I |
| With buds and bells and stars without a name | Y |
| With all the gardener Fancy e'er could feign | I |
| Who breeding flowers will never breed the same | Y |
| And there shall be for thee all soft delight | G |
| That shadowy thought can win | I |
| A bright torch and a casement ope at night | G |
| To let the warm Love in | I |
John Keats
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