How Florence Rings Her Bells Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EFEEF GCGG HIIII IJIIJ CKCCK CLCCL MJMMJ NONNO JCJJWith shimmer of steel and blare of brass | A |
And Switzers marching with martial stride | B |
And cavaliers trampling brown the grass | A |
Came bow legged Charles through the Apennine pass | A |
With black Il Moro for traitor guide | B |
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And passing by Pisa's ransomed towers | C |
He swept up stream over Arno's plain | D |
Where Florence garlands herself with flowers | C |
From burgeoning vineyards and olive bowers | C |
And emerald furrows of sprouting grain | D |
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And flying and flaunting his pennons proud | E |
Crossed her bridges with naked sword | F |
And sware he would flourish his trumpets loud | E |
And bristle his spears save her beauty bowed | E |
Itself to his stirrup and owned him lord | F |
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Then Savonarola's voice was heard | G |
Swelling as Arno storm flushed sweels | C |
And with threat for threat and with gird for gird | G |
Capponi flashed back the famous word | G |
Then blow your trumpets we'll ring our bells '' | - |
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And lo as he spake into street and square | H |
Streamed Florentine burghers in grim array | I |
Then Charles and Sforza and groom Beaucaire | I |
Scared by the city they deemed but fair | I |
Shouldered their pikes and passed away | I |
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But now a Monarch more mighty far | I |
Than ever from Gallic or Teuton throne | J |
Swooped from the Alps upon wings of war | I |
Comes welcome as April and west winds are | I |
When Winter is over and mistral flown | J |
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The Fair City peacefully rings her bells | C |
Rings her bells and the loving peal | K |
In the lazuline ether ascends and swells | C |
Till hoary turrets and convent cells | C |
Feel young once more as the young buds feel | K |
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And iris gonfalons scale her walls | C |
And rustic roses storm square and street | L |
In sound of her gates the cuckoo calls | C |
And the slow swaying ox wain creaks and crawls | C |
'Twixt blossoming bean and beardless wheat | L |
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In gabled pathway and shaded porch | M |
Men gather and wait to acclaim The Queen'' | J |
While over the wall where the sunrays scorch | M |
And the lizard is lost the silvery torch | M |
Of the fig is tipped with a flame of green | J |
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And cypress spire and stonepine dome | N |
And circling mountain look on and smile | O |
Saying Hitherward evermore seek your home | N |
When you traverse the furrows of fallow foam | N |
That nourish with glory your Northern Isle | O |
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And from weightier cares than a Caesar's brain | J |
Pondered of old would crave release | C |
Wise Ruler whose long victorious Reign | J |
Imposes on love loyal land and main | J |
The fetters of proud Imperial Peace '' | - |
Alfred Austin
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