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The Drug-shop, Or, Endymion In Edmonstoun Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Oh yes I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny mooning around as usual He will never make his way	A
Letter of George Keats	B
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Night falls the great jars glow against the dark	C
Dark green dusk red and like a coiling snake	D
Writhing eternally in smoky gyres	B
Great ropes of gorgeous vapor twist and turn	E
Within them So the Eastern fisherman	F
Saw the swart genie rise when the lead seal	G
Scribbled with charms was lifted from the jar	H
And well how went the tale Like this like this	B
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No herbage broke the barren flats of land	I
No winds dared loiter within smiling trees	B
Nor were there any brooks on either hand	I
Only the dry bright sand	I
Naked and golden lay before the seas	B
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One boat toiled noiselessly along the deep	J
The thirsty ripples dying silently	K
Upon its track Far out the brown nets sweep	J
And night begins to creep	J
Across the intolerable mirror of the sea	K
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Twice the nets rise a trail with sea plants brown	L
Distorted shells and rocks green mossed with slime	M
Nought else The fisher sick at heart kneels down	L
Prayer may appease God's frown	L
He thinks then kneeling casts for the third time	M
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And lo an earthen jar bound round with brass	B
Lies tangled in the cordage of his net	N
About the bright waves gleam like shattered glass	B
And where the sea's rim was	B
The sun dips flat and red about to set	N
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The prow grates on the beach The fisherman	F
Stoops tearing at the cords that bind the seal	G
Shall pearls roll out lustrous and white and wan	O
Lapis carnelian	O
Unheard of stones that make the sick mind reel	G
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With wonder of their beauty Rubies then	O
Green emeralds glittering like the eyes of beasts	B
Poisonous opals good to madden men	O
Gold bezants ten and ten	O
Hard regal diamonds like kingly feasts	B
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He tugged the seal gave way A little smoke	P
Curled like a feather in the darkening sky	Q
A blinding gush of fire burst flamed and broke	P
A voice like a wind spoke	P
Armored with light and turbaned terribly	K
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A genie tramped the round earth underfoot	R
His head sought out the stars his cupped right hand	I
Made half the sky one darkness He was mute	S
The sun a ripened fruit	S
Drooped lower Scarlet eddied o'er the sand	I
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The genie spoke O miserable one	O
Thy prize awaits thee come and hug it close	B
A noble crown thy draggled nets have won	O
For this that thou hast done	O
Blessed are fools A gift remains for those	B
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His hand sought out his sword and lightnings flared	T
Across the sky in one great bloom of fire	U
Poised like a toppling mountain it hung bared	T
Suns that were jewels glared	T
Along its hilt The air burnt like a pyre	U
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Once more the genie spoke Something I owe	V
To thee thou fool thou fool Come canst thou sing	W
Yea Sing then if thy song be brave then go	V
Free and released or no	V
Find first some task some overmastering thing	W
I cannot do and find it speedily	K
For if thou dost not thou shalt surely die	Q
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The sword whirled back The fisherman uprose	B
And if at first his voice was weak with fear	X
And his limbs trembled it was but a doze	B
And at the high song's close	B
He stood up straight His voice rang loud and clear	X
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The Song	Y
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Last night the quays were lighted	Z
Cressets of smoking pine	O
Glared o'er the roaring mariners	B
That drink the yellow wine	O
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Their song rolled to the rafters	B
It struck the high stars pale	A2
Such worth was in their discourse	B
Such wonder in their tale	A2
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Blue borage filled the clinking cups	B
The murky night grew wan	O
Till one rose crowned with laurel leaves	B
That was an outland man	O
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Come let us drink to war said he	K
The torch of the sacked town	O
The swan's bath and the wolf ships	B
And Harald of renown	O
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Yea while the milk was on his lips	B
Before the day was born	O
He took the Almayne Kaiser's head	B2
To be his drinking horn	O
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Yea while the down was on his chin	O
Or yet his beard was grown	O
He broke the gates of Micklegarth	C2
And stole the lion throne	O
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Drink to Harald king of the world	D2
Lord of the tongue and the troth	C2
To the bellowing horns of Ostfriesland	D2
And the trumpets of the Goth	C2
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Their shouts rolled to the rafters	B
The drink horns crashed and rang	E2
And all their talk was a clangor of war	F2
As swords together sang	E2
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But dimly through the deep night	D2
Where stars like flowers shone	O
A passionate shape came gliding	W
I saw one thing alone	O
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I only saw my young love	G2
Shining against the dark	C
The whiteness of her raiment	D2
The head that bent to hark	C
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I only saw my young love	G2
Like flowers in the sun	O
Her hands like waxen petals	B
Where yawning poppies run	O
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I only felt there chrysmal	A2
Against my cheek her breath	C2
Though all the winds were baying	W
And the sky bright with Death	C2
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Red sparks whirled up the chimney	K
A hungry flaught of flame	H2
And a lean man from Greece arose	B
Thrasyllos was his name	H2
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I praise all noble wines he cried	D2
Green robes of tissue fine	O
Peacocks and apes and ivory	K
And Homer's sea loud line	O
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Statues and rings and carven gems	B
And the wise crawling sea	K
But most of all the crowns of kings	B
The rule they wield thereby	Q
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Power fired power blank and bright	D2
A fit hilt for the hand	D2
The one good sword for a freeman	O
While yet the cold stars stand	D2
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Their shouts rolled to the rafters	B
The air was thick with wine	O
I only knew her deep eyes	B
And felt her hand in mine	O
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Softly as quiet water	U
One finger touched my cheek	I2
Her face like gracious moonlight	D2
I might not move nor speak	I2
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I only saw that beauty	K
I only felt that form	J2
There in the silken darkness	B
God wot my heart was warm	J2
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Their shouts rolled to the rafters	B
Another chief began	O
His slit lips showed him for a Hun	O
He was an evil man	O
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Sing to the joys of women he yelled	D2
The hot delicious tents	B
The soft couch and the white limbs	B
The air a steam of scents	B
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His eyes gleamed and he wet his lips	B
The rafters shook with cheers	B
As he sang of woman who is man's slave	K2
For all unhonored years	B
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Whether the wanton laughs amain	O
With one white shoulder bare	L2
Or in a sacked room you unbind	D2
Some crouching maiden's hair	L2
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This is the only good for man	O
Like spices of the South	C2
To see the glimmering body laid	D2
As pasture to his mouth	C2
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To leave no lees within the cup	M2
To see and take and rend	D2
To lap a girl's limbs up like wine	O
And laugh knowing the end	D2
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Only like low still breathing	W
I heard one voice one word	D2
And hot speech poured upon my lips	B
As my hands held a sword	D2
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Fools thrice fools of lust I cried	D2
Your eyes are blind to see	K
Eternal beauty moving far	H
More glorious than horns of war	F2
But though my eyes were one blind scar	H
That sight is shown to me	K
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You nuzzle at the ivory side	D2
You clasp the golden head	D2
Fools fools who chatter and sing	W
You have taken the sign of a terrible thing	W
You have drunk down God with your beeswing	W
And broken the saints for bread	D2
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For God moves darkly	K
In silence and in storm	J2
But in the body of woman	O
He shows one burning form	J2
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For God moves blindly	K
In darkness and in dread	D2
But in the body of woman	O
He raises up the dead	D2
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Gracile and straight as birches	K
Swift as the questing birds	K
They fill true lovers' drink horns up	M2
Who speak not having no words	K
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Love is not delicate toying	W
A slim and shimmering mesh	N2
It is two souls wrenched into one	O
Two bodies made one flesh	N2
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Lust is a sprightly servant	D2
Gallant where wines are poured	D2
Love is a bitter master	U
Love is an iron lord	D2
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Satin ease of the body	K
Fattened sloth of the hands	K
These and their like he will not send	D2
Only immortal fires to rend	D2
And the world's end is your j	A