Ode To Beauty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBEBAFGFHBCBIJKJ CCLLMMNNBBOO BHHPCCAAHQRDDSSTTBBU VQVVWXWYZYZVVOO A2A2BBBBB2C2CCWWBB AAAAKKBBCCVVBBCCAAWho gave thee O Beauty | A |
The keys of this breast | B |
Too credulous lover | C |
Of blest and unblest | B |
Say when in lapsed ages | D |
Thee knew I of old | B |
Or what was the service | E |
For which I was sold | B |
When first my eyes saw thee | A |
I found me thy thrall | F |
By magical drawings | G |
Sweet tyrant of all | F |
I drank at thy fountain | H |
False waters of thirst | B |
Thou intimate stranger | C |
Thou latest and first | B |
Thy dangerous glances | I |
Make women of men | J |
New born we are melting | K |
Into nature again | J |
Lavish lavish promiser | C |
Nigh persuading gods to err | C |
Guest of million painted forms | L |
Which in turn thy glory warms | L |
The frailest leaf the mossy bark | M |
The acorn's cup the raindrop's arc | M |
The swinging spider's silver line | N |
The ruby of the drop of wine | N |
The shining pebble of the pond | B |
Thou inscribest with a bond | B |
In thy momentary play | O |
Would bankrupt Nature to repay | O |
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Ah what avails it | B |
To hide or to shun | H |
Whom the Infinite One | H |
Hath granted his throne | P |
The heaven high over | C |
Is the deep's lover | C |
The sun and sea | A |
Informed by thee | A |
Before me run | H |
And draw me on | Q |
Yet fly me still | R |
As Fate refuses | D |
To me the heart Fate for me chooses | D |
Is it that my opulent soul | S |
Was mingled from the generous whole | S |
Sea valleys and the deep of skies | T |
Furnished several supplies | T |
And the sands whereof I'm made | B |
Draw me to them self betrayed | B |
I turn the proud portfolios | U |
Which hold the grand designs | V |
Of Salvator of Guercino | Q |
And Piranesi's lines | V |
I hear the lofty P ans | V |
Of the masters of the shell | W |
Who heard the starry music | X |
And recount the numbers well | W |
Olympian bards who sung | Y |
Divine Ideas below | Z |
Which always find us young | Y |
And always keep us so | Z |
Oft in streets or humblest places | V |
I detect far wandered graces | V |
Which from Eden wide astray | O |
In lowly homes have lost their way | O |
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Thee gliding through the sea of form | A2 |
Like the lightning through the storm | A2 |
Somewhat not to be possessed | B |
Somewhat not to be caressed | B |
No feet so fleet could ever find | B |
No perfect form could ever bind | B |
Thou eternal fugitive | B2 |
Hovering over all that live | C2 |
Quick and skilful to inspire | C |
Sweet extravagant desire | C |
Starry space and lily bell | W |
Filling with thy roseate smell | W |
Wilt not give the lips to taste | B |
Of the nectar which thou hast | B |
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All that's good and great with thee | A |
Stands in deep conspiracy | A |
Thou hast bribed the dark and lonely | A |
To report thy features only | A |
And the cold and purple morning | K |
Itself with thoughts of thee adorning | K |
The leafy dell the city mart | B |
Equal trophies of thine art | B |
E'en the flowing azure air | C |
Thou hast touched for my despair | C |
And if I languish into dreams | V |
Again I meet the ardent beams | V |
Queen of things I dare not die | B |
In Being's deeps past ear and eye | B |
Lest there I find the same deceiver | C |
And be the sport of Fate forever | C |
Dread power but dear if God thou be | A |
Unmake me quite or give thyself to me | A |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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