Poem: On The Sale By Auction Of Keats' Love Letters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDDCDCThese 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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