Sleep And Poetry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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As I lay in my bed slepe full unmeteA
Was unto me but why that I ne mightA
Rest I ne wist for there n'as erthly wightA
As I suppose had more of hertis eseB
Than I for I n'ad sicknesse nor disese ChaucerC
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What is more gentle than a wind in summerC
What is more soothing than the pretty hummerC
That stays one moment in an open flowerC
And buzzes cheerily from bower to bowerC
What is more tranquil than a musk rose blowingD
In a green island far from all men's knowingD
More healthful than the leafiness of dalesB
More secret than a nest of nightingalesB
More serene than Cordelia's countenanceB
More full of visions than a high romanceB
What but thee Sleep Soft closer of our eyesB
Low murmurer of tender lullabiesB
Light hoverer around our happy pillowsB
Wreather of poppy buds and weeping willowsB
Silent entangler of a beauty's tressesB
Most happy listener when the morning blessesB
Thee for enlivening all the cheerful eyesB
That glance so brightly at the new sun riseB
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But what is higher beyond thought than theeE
Fresher than berries of a mountain treeE
More strange more beautiful more smooth more regalF
Than wings of swans than doves than dim seen eagleF
What is it And to what shall I compare itA
It has a glory and naught else can share itA
The thought thereof is awful sweet and holyE
Chasing away all worldliness and follyE
Coming sometimes like fearful claps of thunderC
Or the low rumblings earth's regions underC
And sometimes like a gentle whisperingD
Of all the secrets of some wond'rous thingD
That breathes about us in the vacant airG
So that we look around with prying stareG
Perhaps to see shapes of light aerial limningD
And catch soft floatings from a faint heard hymningD
To see the laurel wreath on high suspendedA
That is to crown our name when life is endedA
Sometimes it gives a glory to the voiceB
And from the heart up springs rejoice rejoiceB
Sounds which will reach the Framer of all thingsB
And die away in ardent mutteringsB
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No one who once the glorious sun has seenH
And all the clouds and felt his bosom cleanH
For his great Maker's presence but must knowI
What 'tis I mean and feel his being glowI
Therefore no insult will I give his spiritA
By telling what he sees from native meritA
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O Poesy for thee I hold my penJ
That am not yet a glorious denizenK
Of thy wide heaven Should I rather kneelL
Upon some mountain top until I feelL
A glowing splendour round about me hungD
And echo back the voice of thine own tongueD
O Poesy for thee I grasp my penJ
That am not yet a glorious denizenK
Of thy wide heaven yet to my ardent prayerG
Yield from thy sanctuary some clear airG
Smooth'd for intoxication by the breathM
Of flowering bays that I may die a deathM
Of luxury and my young spirit followI
The morning sun beams to the great ApolloI
Like a fresh sacrifice or if I can bearG
The o'erwhelming sweets 'twill bring to me the fairG
Visions of all places a bowery nookD
Will be elysium an eternal bookD
Whence I may copy many a lovely sayingD
About the leaves and flowers about the playingD
Of nymphs in woods and fountains and the shadeA
Keeping a silence round a sleeping maidA
And many a verse from so strange influenceB
That we must ever wonder how and whenceB
It came Also imaginings will hoverC
Round my fire side and haply there discoverC
Vistas of solemn beauty where I'd wanderC
In happy silence like the clear MeanderC
Through its lone vales and where I found a spotA
Of awfuller shade or an enchanted grotA
Or a green hill o'erspread with chequer'd dressB
Of flowers and fearful from its lovelinessB
Write on my tablets all that was permittedA
All that was for our human senses fittedA
Then the events of this wide world I'd seizeB
Like a strong giant and my spirit teazeB
Till at its shoulders it should proudly seeB
Wings to find out an immortalityB
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Stop and consider life is but a dayA
A fragile dew drop on its perilous wayA
From a tree's summit a poor Indian's sleepN
While his boat hastens to the monstrous steepN
Of Montmorenci Why so sad a moanO
Life is the rose's hope while yet unblownO
The reading of an ever changing taleP
The light uplifting of a maiden's veilP
A pigeon tumbling in clear summer airG
A laughing school boy without grief or careG
Riding the springy branches of an elmQ
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O for ten years that I may overwhelmQ
Myself in poesy so I may do the deedA
That my own soul has to itself decreedA
Then will I pass the countries that I seeB
In long perspective and continuallyB
Taste their pure fountains First the realm I'll passB
Of Flora and old Pan sleep in the grassB
Feed upon apples red and strawberriesB
And choose each pleasure that my fancy seesB
Catch the white handed nymphs in shady placesB
To woo sweet kisses from averted facesB
Play with their fingers touch their shoulders whiteA
Into a pretty shrinking with a biteA
As hard as lips can make it till agreedA
A lovely tale of human life we'll readA
And one will teach a tame dove how it bestA
May fan the cool air gently o'er my restA
Another bending o'er her nimble treadA
Will set a green robe floating round her headA
And still will dance with ever varied easeB
Smiling upon the flowers and the treesB
Another will entice me on and onO
Through almond blossoms and rich cinnamonO
Till in the bosom of a leafy worldA
We rest in silence like two gems upcurl'dA
In the recesses of a pearly shellR
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And can I ever bid these joys farewellR
Yes I must pass them for a nobler lifeS
Where I may find the agonies the strifeS
Of human hearts for lo I see afarT
O'ersailing the blue cragginess a carT
And steeds with streamy manes the charioteerT
Looks out upon the winds with glorious fearT
And now the numerous tramplings quiver lightlyB
Along a huge cloud's ridge and now with sprightlyB
Wheel downward come they into fresher skiesB
Tipt round with silver from the sun's bright eyesB
Still downward with capacious whirl they glideA
And now I see them on the green hill's sideA
In breezy rest among the nodding stalksB
The charioteer with wond'rous gesture talksB
To the trees and mountains and there soon appearT
Shapes of delight of mystery and fearT
Passing along before a dusky spaceB
Made by some mighty oaks as they would chaseB
Some ever fleeting music on they sweepN
Lo how they murmur laugh and smile and weepN
Some with upholden hand and mouth severeT
Some with their faces muffled to the earT
Between their arms some clear in youthful bloomU
Go glad and smilingly athwart the gloomU
Some looking back and some with upward gazeB
Yes thousands in a thousand different waysB
Flit onward now a lovely wreath of girlsB
Dancing their sleek hair into tangled curlsB
And now broad wings Most awfully intentA
The driver of those steeds is forward bentA
And seems to listen O that I might knowO
All that he writes with such a hurrying glowO
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The visions all are fled the car is fledA
Into the light of heaven and in their steadA
A sense of real things comes doubly strongD
And like a muddy stream would bear alongD
My soul to nothingness but I will striveV
Against all doubtings and will keep aliveV
The thought of that same chariot and the strangeW
Journey it wentA
Is there so small a rangeW
In the present strength of manhood that the highX
Imagination cannot freely flyX
As she was wont of old prepare her steedsB
Paw up against the light and do strange deedsB
Upon the clouds Has she not shown us allY
From the clear space of ether to the smallY
Breath of new buds unfolding From the meaningD
Of Jove's large eye brow to the tender greeningD
Of April meadows Here her altar shoneO
E'en in this isle and who could paragonO
The fervid choir that lifted up a noiseB
Of harmony to where it aye will poiseB
Its mighty self of convoluting soundA
Huge as a planet and like that roll roundA
Eternally around a dizzy voidA
Ay in those days the Muses wereT

John Keats



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