Two Sonnets: To Haydon, With A Sonnet Written On Seeing The Elgin Marbles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCBDEDEDE AC FGGAAGGAHIHIHI| I | A |
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| Haydon forgive me that I cannot speak | B |
| Definitively of these mighty things | C |
| Forgive me that I have not eagle's wings | C |
| That what I want I know not where to seek | B |
| And think that I would not be over meek | B |
| In rolling out upfollowed thunderings | C |
| Even to the steep of Heliconian springs | C |
| Were I of ample strength for such a freak | B |
| Think too that all these numbers should be thine | D |
| Whose else In this who touch thy vesture's hem | E |
| For when men stared at what was most divine | D |
| With brainless idiotism and o'erwise phlegm | E |
| Thou hadst beheld the full Hesperian shine | D |
| Of their star in the east and gone to worship them | E |
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| II | A |
| On Seeing The Elgin Marbles | C |
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| - | |
| My spirit is too weak mortality | F |
| Weighs heavily upon me like unwilling sleep | G |
| And each imagined pinnacle and steep | G |
| Of godlike hardship tells me I must die | A |
| Like a sick eagle looking at the sky | A |
| Yet 'tis a gentle luxury to weep | G |
| That I have not the cloudy winds to keep | G |
| Fresh for the opening of the morning's eye | A |
| Such dim conceived glories of the brain | H |
| Bring round the heart an undescribable feud | I |
| So do these wonders a most dizzy pain | H |
| That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude | I |
| Wasting of old Time with a billowy main | H |
| A sun a shadow of a magnitude | I |
John Keats
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