Dedication To Lady Windsor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EFEEF GHGGH IJIIJ KLKKL MNMMN OPOOP AQAAQ MRMMR STSST FUFFU VWVVW TXTTX YZYYZ A2UA2A2U B2FB2B2F C2TC2C2TWhere violets blue to olives gray | A |
From furrows brown lift laughing eyes | B |
And silvery Mensola sings its way | A |
Through terraced slopes nor seeks to stay | A |
But onward and downward leaps and flies | B |
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Where vines just newly burgeoned link | C |
Their hands to join the dance of Spring | D |
Green lizards glisten from clest and chink | C |
And almond blossoms rosy pink | C |
Cluster and perch ere taking wing | D |
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Where over strips of emerald wheat | E |
Glimmer red peach and snowy pear | F |
And nightingales all day long repeat | E |
Their love song not less glad than sweet | E |
They chant in sorrow and gloom elsewhere | F |
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Where as the mid day belfries peal | G |
The peasant halts beside his steer | H |
And while he muncheth his homely meal | G |
The swelling tulips blush to feel | G |
The amorous currents of the year | H |
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Where purple iris banners scale | I |
Defending wall and crumbling ledge | J |
And virgin windflowers lithe and frail | I |
Now mantling red now trembling pale | I |
Peep out from furrow and hide in hedge | J |
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Where with loud song the labourer tells | K |
His love to maiden loitering nigh | L |
And in the fig tree's wakening cells | K |
The honeyed sweetness swarms and swells | K |
And mountains prop the spacious sky | L |
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Where April daring roses blow | M |
From sunny wall and sheltered bower | N |
And Arno flushes with melted snow | M |
And Florence glittering down below | M |
Peoples the air with dome and tower | N |
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How sweet when vernal thoughts once more | O |
Uncoil them in one's veins and urge | P |
My feet to fly my wings to soar | O |
And hastening downward to the shore | O |
I spurn the sand and skim the surge | P |
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And never lingering by the way | A |
But hastening on past candid lakes | Q |
Mysterious mountains grim and gray | A |
Past pine woods dark and bounding spray | A |
White as its far off parent flakes | Q |
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And thence from Alp's unfurrowed snow | M |
By Apennine's relenting slope | R |
Zigzagging downward smooth and slow | M |
To where all flushed with the morning glow | M |
Valdarno keeps its pledge with hope | R |
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And then the end the longed for end | S |
Climbing the hill I oft have clomb | T |
Down which Mugello's waters wend | S |
Again dear hospitable friend | S |
To find You in your Tuscan home | T |
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You with your kind lord standing there | F |
Crowning the morn with youth and grace | U |
And radiant smiles that reach me ere | F |
Our hands can touch and Florence fair | F |
Seems fairer in your comely face | U |
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Behind you Phyllis mother's pet | V |
Your gift unto the Future stands | W |
Dimpling your skirt uncertain yet | V |
If she recalls or I forget | V |
With violets fresh in both her hands | W |
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And next his eyes and cheeks aflame | T |
See Other with his sword arrive | X |
Other who thus recalls the name | T |
May he some day renew the fame | T |
And feats who boasts the blood of Clive | X |
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How sweet how fair From vale to crest | Y |
Come wafts of song and waves of scent | Z |
Whose sensuous beauty in the breast | Y |
Might haply breed a vague unrest | Y |
Did not your presence bring content | Z |
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For you not tender more than true | A2 |
Blend Northern worth with Southern grace | U |
And sure Boccaccio never drew | A2 |
A being so designed as you | A2 |
To be the Genius of the place | U |
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But whether among Tuscan flowers | B2 |
You dwell fair English flower or where | F |
Saint Fagan lifts its feudal towers | B2 |
Or Hewell from ancestral bowers | B2 |
Riseth afresh and yet more fair | F |
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Still may your portals eve or morn | C2 |
Fly open when they hear his name | T |
Who though indeed he would not scorn | C2 |
Welcome from distant days unborn | C2 |
Prizes your friendship more than fame | T |
Alfred Austin
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