Two Sonnets On Fame Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEFEGEGEHH AI JKJKLMLMEKENNK| I | A |
| Fame like a wayward girl will still be coy | B |
| To those who woo her with too slavish knees | C |
| But makes surrender to some thoughtless boy | B |
| And dotes the more upon a heart at ease | C |
| She is a Gypsy will not speak to those | D |
| Who have not learnt to be content without her | E |
| A Jilt whose ear was never whisper'd close | F |
| Who thinks they scandal her who talk about her | E |
| A very Gypsy is she Nilus born | G |
| Sister in law to jealous Potiphar | E |
| Ye love sick Bards repay her scorn for scorn | G |
| Ye Artists lovelorn madmen that ye are | E |
| Make your best bow to her and bid adieu | H |
| Then if she likes it she will follow you | H |
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| II | A |
| 'You cannot eat your cake and have it too ' Proverb | I |
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| How fever'd is the man who cannot look | J |
| Upon his mortal days with temperate blood | K |
| Who vexes all the leaves of his life's book | J |
| And robs his fair name of its maidenhood | K |
| It is as if the rose should pluck herself | L |
| On the ripe plum finger its misty bloom | M |
| As if a Naiad like a meddling elf | L |
| Should darken her pure grot with muddy gloom | M |
| But the rose leaves herself upon the briar | E |
| For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed | K |
| And the ripe plum still wears its dim attire | E |
| The undisturbed lake has crystal space | N |
| Why then should man teasing the world for grace | N |
| Spoil his salvation for a fierce miscreed | K |
John Keats
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