Song Of The Indian Maid, From 'endymion' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB AADEED AAFGGF AAHIIHJJH AAKHHKJJK LLMMNO LLPPL QQRRQSSTTHHTHUUH VWXWWWQQX HHW XXWWH HHW HQQYYH WWQQQQQQHHWW QQZZA2A2 A2A2XXQQHHQQHB2B2HHH HHB2B2B2B2 HHWB2B2W A2A2WHHWO SORROW | A |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Why dost borrow | A |
nbsp nbsp nbsp The natural hue of health from vermeil lips | B |
nbsp nbsp nbsp To give maiden blushes | C |
nbsp nbsp nbsp To the white rose bushes | C |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Or is it thy dewy hand the daisy tips | B |
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nbsp nbsp nbsp O Sorrow | A |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Why dost borrow | A |
nbsp nbsp nbsp The lustrous passion from a falcon eye | D |
nbsp nbsp nbsp To give the glow worm light | E |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Or on a moonless night | E |
nbsp nbsp nbsp To tinge on siren shores the salt sea spry | D |
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nbsp nbsp nbsp O Sorrow | A |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Why dost borrow | A |
nbsp nbsp nbsp The mellow ditties from a mourning tongue | F |
nbsp nbsp nbsp To give at evening pale | G |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Unto the nightingale | G |
nbsp nbsp nbsp That thou mayst listen the cold dews among | F |
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nbsp nbsp nbsp O Sorrow | A |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Why dost borrow | A |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Heart's lightness from the merriment of May | H |
nbsp nbsp nbsp A lover would not tread | I |
nbsp nbsp nbsp A cowslip on the head | I |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Though he should dance from eve till peep of day | H |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Nor any drooping flower | J |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Held sacred for thy bower | J |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Wherever he may sport himself and play | H |
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nbsp nbsp nbsp To Sorrow | A |
nbsp nbsp nbsp I bade good morrow | A |
nbsp nbsp nbsp And thought to leave her far away behind | K |
nbsp nbsp nbsp But cheerly cheerly | H |
nbsp nbsp nbsp She loves me dearly | H |
nbsp nbsp nbsp She is so constant to me and so kind | K |
nbsp nbsp nbsp I would deceive her | J |
nbsp nbsp nbsp And so leave her | J |
nbsp nbsp nbsp But ah she is so constant and so kind | K |
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Beneath my palm trees by the river side | L |
I sat a weeping in the whole world wide | L |
There was no one to ask me why I wept | M |
nbsp nbsp nbsp And so I kept | M |
Brimming the water lily cups with tears | N |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Cold as my fears | O |
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Beneath my palm trees by the river side | L |
I sat a weeping what enamour'd bride | L |
Cheated by shadowy wooer from the clouds | P |
nbsp nbsp nbsp But hides and shrouds | P |
Beneath dark palm trees by a river side | L |
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And as I sat over the light blue hills | Q |
There came a noise of revellers the rills | Q |
Into the wide stream came of purple hue | R |
nbsp nbsp nbsp 'Twas Bacchus and his crew | R |
The earnest trumpet spake and silver thrills | Q |
From kissing cymbals made a merry din | S |
nbsp nbsp nbsp 'Twas Bacchus and his kin | S |
Like to a moving vintage down they came | T |
Crown'd with green leaves and faces all on flame | T |
All madly dancing through the pleasant valley | H |
nbsp nbsp nbsp To scare thee Melancholy | H |
O then O then thou wast a simple name | T |
And I forgot thee as the berried holly | H |
By shepherds is forgotten when in June | U |
Tall chestnuts keep away the sun and moon | U |
nbsp nbsp nbsp I rush'd into the folly | H |
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Within his car aloft young Bacchus stood | V |
Trifling his ivy dart in dancing mood | W |
nbsp nbsp nbsp With sidelong laughing | X |
And little rills of crimson wine imbrued | W |
His plump white arms and shoulders enough white | W |
nbsp nbsp nbsp For Venus' pearly bite | W |
And near him rode Silenus on his ass | Q |
Pelted with flowers as he on did pass | Q |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Tipsily quaffing | X |
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'Whence came ye merry Damsels whence came ye | H |
So many and so many and such glee | H |
Why have ye left your bowers desolate | W |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Your lutes and gentler fate ' | - |
'We follow Bacchus Bacchus on the wing | X |
nbsp nbsp nbsp A conquering | X |
Bacchus young Bacchus good or ill betide | W |
We dance before him thorough kingdoms wide | W |
Come hither lady fair and joined be | H |
nbsp nbsp nbsp To our wild minstrelsy ' | - |
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'Whence came ye jolly Satyrs whence came ye | H |
So many and so many and such glee | H |
Why have ye left your forest haunts why left | W |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Your nuts in oak tree cleft ' | - |
'For wine for wine we left our kernel tree | H |
For wine we left our heath and yellow brooms | Q |
nbsp nbsp nbsp And cold mushrooms | Q |
For wine we follow Bacchus through the earth | Y |
Great god of breathless cups and chirping mirth | Y |
Come hither lady fair and joined be | H |
nbsp nbsp nbsp To our mad minstrelsy ' | - |
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Over wide streams and mountains great we went | W |
And save when Bacchus kept his ivy tent | W |
Onward the tiger and the leopard pants | Q |
nbsp nbsp nbsp With Asian elephants | Q |
Onward these myriads with song and dance | Q |
With zebras striped and sleek Arabians' prance | Q |
Web footed alligators crocodiles | Q |
Bearing upon their scaly backs in files | Q |
Plump infant laughers mimicking the coil | H |
Of seamen and stout galley rowers' toil | H |
With toying oars and silken sails they glide | W |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Nor care for wind and tide | W |
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Mounted on panthers' furs and lions' manes | Q |
From rear to van they scour about the plains | Q |
A three days' journey in a moment done | Z |
And always at the rising of the sun | Z |
About the wilds they hunt with spear and horn | A2 |
nbsp nbsp nbsp On spleenful unicorn | A2 |
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I saw Osirian Egypt kneel adown | A2 |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Before the vine wreath crown | A2 |
I saw parch'd Abyssinia rouse and sing | X |
nbsp nbsp nbsp To the silver cymbals' ring | X |
I saw the whelming vintage hotly pierce | Q |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Old Tartary the fierce | Q |
The kings of Ind their jewel sceptres vail | H |
And from their treasures scatter pearled hail | H |
Great Brahma from his mystic heaven groans | Q |
nbsp nbsp nbsp And all his priesthood moans | Q |
Before young Bacchus' eye wink turning pale | H |
Into these regions came I following him | B2 |
Sick hearted weary so I took a whim | B2 |
To stray away into these forests drear | H |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Alone without a peer | H |
And I have told thee all thou mayest hear | H |
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nbsp nbsp nbsp Young Stranger | H |
nbsp nbsp nbsp I've been a ranger | H |
In search of pleasure throughout every clime | B2 |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Alas 'tis not for me | B2 |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Bewitch'd I sure must be | B2 |
To lose in grieving all my maiden prime | B2 |
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nbsp nbsp nbsp Come then Sorrow | H |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Sweetest Sorrow | H |
Like an own babe I nurse thee on my breast | W |
nbsp nbsp nbsp I thought to leave thee | B2 |
nbsp nbsp nbsp And deceive thee | B2 |
But now of all the world I love thee best | W |
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nbsp nbsp nbsp There is not one | A2 |
nbsp nbsp nbsp No no not one | A2 |
But thee to comfort a poor lonely maid | W |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Thou art her mother | H |
nbsp nbsp nbsp And her brother | H |
Her playmate and her wooer in the shade | W |
John Keats
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