Why This Volume Is So Thin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDEFFEGGHIJIKKJF JFLMNONOPPIn youth I dreamed as other youths have dreamt | A |
Of love and thrummed an amateur guitar | B |
To verses of my own a stout attempt | C |
To hold communion with the Evening Star | B |
I wrote a sonnet rhymed it made it scan | D |
Ah me how trippingly those last lines ran | D |
O Hesperus O happy star to bend | E |
O'er Helen's bosom in the tranced west | F |
To match the hours heave by upon her breast | F |
And at her parted lip for dreams attend | E |
If dawn defraud thee how shall I be deemed | G |
Who house within that bosom and am dreamed | G |
For weeks I thought these lines remarkable | H |
For weeks I put on airs and called myself | I |
A bard till on a day as it befell | J |
I took a small green Moxon from the shelf | I |
At random opened at a casual place | K |
And found my young illusions face to face | K |
With this 'Still steadfast still unchangeable | J |
Pillow'd upon my fair Love's ripening breast | F |
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell | J |
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest | F |
Still still to hear her tender taken breath | L |
And so live ever or else swoon to death ' | M |
O gulf not to be crossed by taking thought | N |
O heights by toil not to be overcome | O |
Great Keats unto your altar straight I brought | N |
My speech and from the shrine departed dumb | O |
And yet sometimes I think you played it hard | P |
Upon a rather hopeful minor bard | P |
Sir Arthur Quiller-couch
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