Ode To Beauty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBEBAFGFHBCBIJKJ CCLLMMNNBBOO BHHPCCAAHQRDDSSTTBBU VQVVWXWYZYZVVOO A2A2BBBBB2C2CCWWBB AAAAKKBBCCVVBBCCAA| Who 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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