The Daisy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA CCDC EEFE GGHG IIHI JJCJ CCCC KKLK CCLC CCHC HHLH CCCC LLML HHNH HHDH CCHC OOHO CCCC CCPC CCQC RRHR CCCC DDPD CCDC SSDS TUPT LLDLO love what hours were thine and mine | A |
In lands of palm and southern pine | A |
In lands of palm of orange blossom | B |
Of olive aloe and maize and vine | A |
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What Roman strength Turbia show'd | C |
In ruin by the mountain road | C |
How like a gem beneath the city | D |
Of little Monaco basking glow'd | C |
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How richly down the rocky dell | E |
The torrent vineyard streaming fell | E |
To meet the sun and sunny waters | F |
That only heaved with a summer swell | E |
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What slender campanili grew | G |
By bays the peacock's neck in hue | G |
Where here and there on sandy beaches | H |
A milky bell'd amaryllis blew | G |
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How young Columbus seem'd to rove | I |
Yet present in his natal grove | I |
Now watching high on mountain cornice | H |
And steering now from a purple cove | I |
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Now pacing mute by ocean's rim | J |
Till in a narrow street and dim | J |
I stay'd the wheels at Cogoletto | C |
And drank and loyally drank to him | J |
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Nor knew we well what pleased us most | C |
Not the clipt palm of which they boast | C |
But distant colour happy hamlet | C |
A moulder'd citadel on the coast | C |
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Or tower or high hill convent seen | K |
A light amid its olives green | K |
Or olive hoary cape in ocean | L |
Or rosy blossom in hot ravine | K |
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Where oleanders flush'd the bed | C |
Of silent torrents gravel spread | C |
And crossing oft we saw the glisten | L |
Of ice far up on a mountain head | C |
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We loved that hall tho' white and cold | C |
Those niched shapes of noble mould | C |
A princely people's awful princes | H |
The grave severe Genovese of old | C |
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At Florence too what golden hours | H |
In those long galleries were ours | H |
What drives about the fresh Cascin | L |
Or walks in Boboli's ducal bowers | H |
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In bright vignettes and each complete | C |
Of tower or duomo sunny sweet | C |
Or palace how the city glitter'd | C |
Thro' cypress avenues at our feet | C |
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But when we crost the Lombard plain | L |
Remember what a plague of rain | L |
Of rain at Reggio rain at Parma | M |
At Lodi rain Piacenza rain | L |
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And stern and sad so rare the smiles | H |
Of sunlight look'd the Lombard piles | H |
Porch pillars on the lion resting | N |
And sombre old colonnaded aisles | H |
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O Milan O the chanting quires | H |
The giant windows' blazon'd fires | H |
The height the space the gloom the glory | D |
A mount of marble a hundred spires | H |
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I climb'd the roofs at break of day | C |
Sun smitten Alps before me lay | C |
I stood among the silent statues | H |
And statued pinnacles mute as they | C |
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How faintly flush'd how phantom fair | O |
Was Monte Rosa hanging there | O |
A thousand shadowy pencill'd valleys | H |
And snowy dells in a golden air | O |
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Remember how we came at last | C |
To Como shower and storm and blast | C |
Had blown the lake beyond his limit | C |
And all was flooded and how we past | C |
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From Como when the light was gray | C |
And in my head for half the day | C |
The rich Virgilian rustic measure | P |
Of Lari Maxume all the way | C |
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Like ballad burthen music kept | C |
As on The Lariano crept | C |
To that fair port below the castle | Q |
Of Queen Theodolind where we slept | C |
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Or hardly slept but watch'd awake | R |
A cypress in the moonlight shake | R |
The moonlight touching o'er a terrace | H |
One tall Agav above the lake | R |
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What more we took our last adieu | C |
And up the snowy Splugen drew | C |
But ere we reach'd the highest summit | C |
I pluck'd a daisy I gave it you | C |
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It told of England then to me | D |
And now it tells of Italy | D |
O love we two shall go no longer | P |
To lands of summer across the sea | D |
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So dear a life your arms enfold | C |
Whose crying is a cry for gold | C |
Yet here to night in this dark city | D |
When ill and weary alone and cold | C |
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I found tho' crush'd to hard and dry | S |
This nurseling of another sky | S |
Still in the little book you lent me | D |
And where you tenderly laid it by | S |
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And I forgot the clouded Forth | T |
The gloom that saddens Heaven and Earth | U |
The bitter east the misty summer | P |
And gray metropolis of the North | T |
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Perchance to lull the throbs of pain | L |
Perchance to charm a vacant brain | L |
Perchance to dream you still beside me | D |
My fancy fled to the South again | L |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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