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 C2TC2C2T

Where violets blue to olives grayA
From furrows brown lift laughing eyesB
And silvery Mensola sings its wayA
Through terraced slopes nor seeks to stayA
But onward and downward leaps and fliesB
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Where vines just newly burgeoned linkC
Their hands to join the dance of SpringD
Green lizards glisten from clest and chinkC
And almond blossoms rosy pinkC
Cluster and perch ere taking wingD
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Where over strips of emerald wheatE
Glimmer red peach and snowy pearF
And nightingales all day long repeatE
Their love song not less glad than sweetE
They chant in sorrow and gloom elsewhereF
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Where as the mid day belfries pealG
The peasant halts beside his steerH
And while he muncheth his homely mealG
The swelling tulips blush to feelG
The amorous currents of the yearH
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Where purple iris banners scaleI
Defending wall and crumbling ledgeJ
And virgin windflowers lithe and frailI
Now mantling red now trembling paleI
Peep out from furrow and hide in hedgeJ
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Where with loud song the labourer tellsK
His love to maiden loitering nighL
And in the fig tree's wakening cellsK
The honeyed sweetness swarms and swellsK
And mountains prop the spacious skyL
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Where April daring roses blowM
From sunny wall and sheltered bowerN
And Arno flushes with melted snowM
And Florence glittering down belowM
Peoples the air with dome and towerN
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How sweet when vernal thoughts once moreO
Uncoil them in one's veins and urgeP
My feet to fly my wings to soarO
And hastening downward to the shoreO
I spurn the sand and skim the surgeP
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And never lingering by the wayA
But hastening on past candid lakesQ
Mysterious mountains grim and grayA
Past pine woods dark and bounding sprayA
White as its far off parent flakesQ
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And thence from Alp's unfurrowed snowM
By Apennine's relenting slopeR
Zigzagging downward smooth and slowM
To where all flushed with the morning glowM
Valdarno keeps its pledge with hopeR
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And then the end the longed for endS
Climbing the hill I oft have clombT
Down which Mugello's waters wendS
Again dear hospitable friendS
To find You in your Tuscan homeT
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You with your kind lord standing thereF
Crowning the morn with youth and graceU
And radiant smiles that reach me ereF
Our hands can touch and Florence fairF
Seems fairer in your comely faceU
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Behind you Phyllis mother's petV
Your gift unto the Future standsW
Dimpling your skirt uncertain yetV
If she recalls or I forgetV
With violets fresh in both her handsW
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And next his eyes and cheeks aflameT
See Other with his sword arriveX
Other who thus recalls the nameT
May he some day renew the fameT
And feats who boasts the blood of CliveX
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How sweet how fair From vale to crestY
Come wafts of song and waves of scentZ
Whose sensuous beauty in the breastY
Might haply breed a vague unrestY
Did not your presence bring contentZ
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For you not tender more than trueA2
Blend Northern worth with Southern graceU
And sure Boccaccio never drewA2
A being so designed as youA2
To be the Genius of the placeU
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But whether among Tuscan flowersB2
You dwell fair English flower or whereF
Saint Fagan lifts its feudal towersB2
Or Hewell from ancestral bowersB2
Riseth afresh and yet more fairF
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Still may your portals eve or mornC2
Fly open when they hear his nameT
Who though indeed he would not scornC2
Welcome from distant days unbornC2
Prizes your friendship more than fameT

Alfred Austin



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