Bright star

"Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art" poem

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Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art John Keats

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 Bright star , would I were stedfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task 5 Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors — No—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, 10 To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever—or else swoon to death. a speech or address to a person who is not present or to a personified object repeated vowel sounds in words placed near each other repeated vowel or consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other an implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text a metrical pause or break in a verse repeated consonant sounds in words near each other over emphasising language the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line hints at something to come later vivid description that appeals to a readers' senses to create an image or idea a figure of speech that pulls comparisons between two ideas the name of an object or concept is replaced with a word closely related to or suggested by the original a combination of two words that appear to contradict each other attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word repeating the same words or phrases describes something by comparing it to something else with comparative words (as, like, seem, such as, etc.) a part of something is substituted for the whole

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Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art John Keats

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 Bright star , would I were stedfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors — No—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever—or else swoon to death. a speech or address to a person who is not present or to a personified object repeated vowel sounds in words placed near each other repeated vowel or consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other an implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text a metrical pause or break in a verse repeated consonant sounds in words near each other over emphasising language the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line hints at something to come later vivid description that appeals to a readers' senses to create an image or idea a figure of speech that pulls comparisons between two ideas the name of an object or concept is replaced with a word closely related to or suggested by the original a combination of two words that appear to contradict each other attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word repeating the same words or phrases describes something by comparing it to something else with comparative words (as, like, seem, such as, etc.) a part of something is substituted for the whole