Invocation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCE FGFFH IGIIG JEJJ KLKKL DMDD NNONO EPE| Where Apennine slopes unto Tuscan plain | A |
| And breaks into dimples and laughs to flowers | B |
| To see where the terrors of Winter wane | A |
| And out of a valley of grape and grain | A |
| There blossoms a City of domes and towers | B |
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| Teuton Lombard and grasping Gaul | C |
| Prince and Pontiff have forced their way | D |
| Have forded the river and scaled the wall | C |
| And made in its palaces stye and stall | C |
| Where spears might glisten and war steeds neigh | E |
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| But ever since Florence was fair and young | F |
| And the sun upon turret and belfry shone | G |
| Were her windows bannered and joy bells rung | F |
| When back to his saddle the Stranger sprung | F |
| And lances were lifted and pikemen gone | H |
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| Yes ever and ever till you my Queen | I |
| Came over the sea that is all your own | G |
| When the tear on the tip of the vine is seen | I |
| And the fig tree cressets have flamed to green | I |
| And windflower wakened and tulip blown | G |
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| Then roses were showered before your feet | J |
| And her lily crowned gonfalons waved above | E |
| And children chanted in square and street | J |
| All hail to the Monarch may free men greet | J |
| Whose sceptre is Peace and whose Throne is Love ' | - |
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| And now that each snow torrent foams and falls | K |
| And the oreoles sing and the skylarks soar | L |
| And the lithe swallow circles her rose white walls | K |
| Through the clefts of the Apennine Florence calls | K |
| More welcome than Spring come back once more | L |
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| Come back for the cuckoo is on its way | D |
| And the mountains smiling await your smile | M |
| And still in my olive groves bask and stray | D |
| Till the warm winged waters and winds of May | D |
| Shall waft you back to your own loved Isle ' | - |
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| The sickle hath performed its work | N |
| The sickle hath performed its work | N |
| The storm gusts sweep the aspens bare | O |
| Careering clouds and shadows mirk | N |
| Cow the disheartened air | O |
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| No swallow circles round the roof | E |
| No chirp redeems the dripping shed | P |
| The very gables frown reproof | E |
| Why not already fled ''' | - |
Alfred Austin
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