Specimen Of An Induction To A Poem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFFGGAHIIJKLLMM NN ABOOKJLLBNNNNNHHPPNN NNABGG QQNNRRHBSSGGLLNNTTNN| Lo I must tell a tale of chivalry | A |
| For large white plumes are dancing in mine eye | B |
| Not like the formal crest of latter days | C |
| But bending in a thousand graceful ways | C |
| So graceful that it seems no mortal hand | D |
| Or e en the touch of Archimago s wand | E |
| Could charm them into such an attitude | F |
| We must think rather that in playful mood | F |
| Some mountain breeze had turned its chief delight | G |
| To show this wonder of its gentle might | G |
| Lo I must tell a tale of chivalry | A |
| For while I muse the lance points slantingly | H |
| Athwart the morning air some lady sweet | I |
| Who cannot feel for cold her tender feet | I |
| From the worn top of some old battlement | J |
| Hails it with tears her stout defender sent | K |
| And from her own pure self no joy dissembling | L |
| Wraps round her ample robe with happy trembling | L |
| Sometimes when the good Knight his rest would take | M |
| It is reflected clearly in a lake | M |
| With the young ashen boughs gainst which it rests | N |
| And th half seen mossiness of linnets nests | N |
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| Ah shall I ever tell its cruelty | A |
| When the fire flashes from a warrior s eye | B |
| And his tremendous hand is grasping it | O |
| And his dark brow for very wrath is knit | O |
| Or when his spirit with more calm intent | K |
| Leaps to the honors of a tournament | J |
| And makes the gazers round about the ring | L |
| Stare at the grandeur of the ballancing | L |
| No no this is far off then how shall I | B |
| Revive the dying tones of minstrelsy | N |
| Which linger yet about lone gothic arches | N |
| In dark green ivy and among wild larches | N |
| How sing the splendour of the revelries | N |
| When but t s of wine are drunk off to the lees | N |
| And that bright lance against the fretted wall | H |
| Beneath the shade of stately banneral | H |
| Is slung with shining cuirass sword and shield | P |
| Where ye may see a spur in bloody field | P |
| Light footed damsels move with gentle paces | N |
| Round the wide hall and show their happy faces | N |
| Or stand in courtly talk by fives and sevens | N |
| Like those fair stars that twinkle in the heavens | N |
| Yet must I tell a tale of chivalry | A |
| Or wherefore comes that knight so proudly by | B |
| Wherefore more proudly does the gentle knight | G |
| Rein in the swelling of his ample might | G |
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| Spenser thy brows are arched open kind | Q |
| And come like a clear sun rise to my mind | Q |
| And always does my heart with pleasure dance | N |
| When I think on thy noble countenance | N |
| Where never yet was ought more earthly seen | R |
| Than the pure freshness of thy laurels green | R |
| Therefore great bard I not so fearfully | H |
| Call on thy gentle spirit to hover nigh | B |
| My daring steps or if thy tender care | S |
| Thus startled unaware | S |
| Be jealous that the foot of other wight | G |
| Should madly follow that bright path of light | G |
| Trac d by thy lov d Libertas he will speak | L |
| And tell thee that my prayer is very meek | L |
| That I will follow with due reverence | N |
| And start with awe at mine own strange pretence | N |
| Him thou wilt hear so I will rest in hope | T |
| To see wide plains fair trees and lawny slope | T |
| The morn the eve the light the shade the flowers | N |
| Clear streams smooth lakes and overlooking towers | N |
John Keats
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