A Song Of Keats Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEFGFGHIHIJKJK LMNMOPOPQRQRSTSTUVUV KDKD| 'TIS a tarnished book and old | A |
| Edges frayed and covers green | B |
| But between the covers gold | A |
| Gold and jewels in between | B |
| And this written see O see | C |
| How old Time has made it dim | D |
| 'For one song Keats gave to me | C |
| I kneel down and worship him ' | E |
| He who wrote these lines is dust | F |
| All of him is passed away | G |
| Some hand closed his eyes I trust | F |
| Drew the blind to darken day | G |
| Did lips kiss him at the end | H |
| Love lips tremulous yet brave | I |
| Had he mistress child or friend | H |
| To sow green grass upon his grave | I |
| Nay we know not it is long | J |
| Since he tired of Life's deceits | K |
| Closed his ears to sigh and song | J |
| Parted with this book JOHN KEATS | K |
| Year by year the Poet thrives | L |
| Summer smiles and winter weeps | M |
| La Belle Dame Sans Merci lives | N |
| But a heart that loved her sleeps | M |
| Who would woeful go to miss | O |
| Roses red in thorns arrayed | P |
| When he might with surer bliss | O |
| Love a milkwhite Devon maid | P |
| Beauty kindles man's desire | Q |
| Beauty dwindles growing faint | R |
| But the girls who never tire | Q |
| Are the girls that poets paint | R |
| When the moon has taken wings | S |
| And the twilight hour is come | T |
| Grey the woods and no bird sings | S |
| Grey the world beyond and dumb | T |
| Neither light is there nor breeze | U |
| Rose to redden thorn to pain | V |
| Till look look Among the trees | U |
| A sudden bird a scarlet stain | V |
| So he tired of Fate's defeats | K |
| Life's dead trees and woodlands grim | D |
| Till sudden sweet a song of Keats | K |
| One magic moment gave to him | D |
Roderic Quinn
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