Poem: On The Sale By Auction Of Keats' Love Letters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDDCDC| These are the letters which Endymion wrote | A |
| To one he loved in secret and apart | B |
| And now the brawlers of the auction mart | B |
| Bargain and bid for each poor blotted note | A |
| Ay for each separate pulse of passion quote | A |
| The merchant's price I think they love not art | B |
| Who break the crystal of a poet's heart | B |
| That small and sickly eyes may glare and gloat | A |
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| Is it not said that many years ago | C |
| In a far Eastern town some soldiers ran | D |
| With torches through the midnight and began | D |
| To wrangle for mean raiment and to throw | C |
| Dice for the garments of a wretched man | D |
| Not knowing the God's wonder or His woe | C |
Oscar Fingal O'flahertie Wills Wilde
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