Stanzas

John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)



IN a drear-nighted December,
   Too happy, happy tree,
Thy branches ne'er remember
   Their green felicity:
The north cannot undo them,
With a sleety whistle through them;
Nor frozen thawings glue them
   From budding at the prime.

In a drear-nighted December,
   Too happy, happy brook,
Thy bubblings ne'er remember
   Apollo's summer look;
But with a sweet forgetting,
They stay their crystal fretting,
Never, never petting
   About the frozen time.

Ah! would 'twere so with many
   A gentle girl and boy!
But were there ever any
   Writhed not at passed joy?
To know the change and feel it,
When there is none to heal it,
Nor numbed sense to steal it,
   Was never said in rhyme.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 18, 2023

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Scheme Ababcccd Aeaefffd bgbghhhd
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 690
Words 116
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8

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