Staffa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDAAEEFFGGHHAAIJ IKLMBDNNDDDDOONNDNPQ EEAADDRRIINS| Not Aladdin magian | A |
| Ever such a work began | A |
| Not the wizard of the Dee | B |
| Ever such a dream could see | B |
| Not St John in Patmos' Isle | C |
| In the passion of his toil | D |
| When he saw the churches seven | A |
| Golden aisl'd built up in heaven | A |
| Gaz'd at such a rugged wonder | E |
| As I stood its roofing under | E |
| Lo I saw one sleeping there | F |
| On the marble cold and bare | F |
| While the surges wash'd his feet | G |
| And his garments white did beat | G |
| Drench'd about the sombre rocks | H |
| On his neck his well grown locks | H |
| Lifted dry above the main | A |
| Were upon the curl again | A |
| 'What is this and what art thou ' | I |
| Whisper'd I and touch'd his brow | J |
| 'What art thou and what is this ' | I |
| Whisper'd I and strove to kiss | K |
| The spirit's hand to wake his eyes | L |
| Up he started in a trice | M |
| 'I am Lycidas ' said he | B |
| 'Fam'd in funeral minstrely | D |
| This was architectur'd thus | N |
| By the great Oceanus | N |
| Here his mighty waters play | D |
| Hollow organs all the day | D |
| Here by turns his dolphins all | D |
| Finny palmers great and small | D |
| Come to pay devotion due | O |
| Each a mouth of pearls must strew | O |
| Many a mortal of these days | N |
| Dares to pass our sacred ways | N |
| Dares to touch audaciously | D |
| This Cathedral of the Sea | N |
| I have been the pontiff priest | P |
| Where the waters never rest | Q |
| Where a fledgy sea bird choir | E |
| Soars for ever holy fire | E |
| I have hid from mortal man | A |
| Proteus is my Sacristan | A |
| But the dulled eye of mortal | D |
| Hath pass'd beyond the rocky portal | D |
| So for ever will I leave | R |
| Such a taint and soon unweave | R |
| All the magic of the place ' | I |
| I | |
| So saying with a Spirit's glance | N |
| He dived | S |
John Keats
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