The Daisy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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O love what hours were thine and mineA
In lands of palm and southern pineA
In lands of palm of orange blossomB
Of olive aloe and maize and vineA
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What Roman strength Turbia show'dC
In ruin by the mountain roadC
How like a gem beneath the cityD
Of little Monaco basking glow'dC
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How richly down the rocky dellE
The torrent vineyard streaming fellE
To meet the sun and sunny watersF
That only heaved with a summer swellE
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What slender campanili grewG
By bays the peacock's neck in hueG
Where here and there on sandy beachesH
A milky bell'd amaryllis blewG
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How young Columbus seem'd to roveI
Yet present in his natal groveI
Now watching high on mountain corniceH
And steering now from a purple coveI
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Now pacing mute by ocean's rimJ
Till in a narrow street and dimJ
I stay'd the wheels at CogolettoC
And drank and loyally drank to himJ
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Nor knew we well what pleased us mostC
Not the clipt palm of which they boastC
But distant colour happy hamletC
A moulder'd citadel on the coastC
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Or tower or high hill convent seenK
A light amid its olives greenK
Or olive hoary cape in oceanL
Or rosy blossom in hot ravineK
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Where oleanders flush'd the bedC
Of silent torrents gravel spreadC
And crossing oft we saw the glistenL
Of ice far up on a mountain headC
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We loved that hall tho' white and coldC
Those niched shapes of noble mouldC
A princely people's awful princesH
The grave severe Genovese of oldC
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At Florence too what golden hoursH
In those long galleries were oursH
What drives about the fresh CascinL
Or walks in Boboli's ducal bowersH
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In bright vignettes and each completeC
Of tower or duomo sunny sweetC
Or palace how the city glitter'dC
Thro' cypress avenues at our feetC
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But when we crost the Lombard plainL
Remember what a plague of rainL
Of rain at Reggio rain at ParmaM
At Lodi rain Piacenza rainL
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And stern and sad so rare the smilesH
Of sunlight look'd the Lombard pilesH
Porch pillars on the lion restingN
And sombre old colonnaded aislesH
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O Milan O the chanting quiresH
The giant windows' blazon'd firesH
The height the space the gloom the gloryD
A mount of marble a hundred spiresH
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I climb'd the roofs at break of dayC
Sun smitten Alps before me layC
I stood among the silent statuesH
And statued pinnacles mute as theyC
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How faintly flush'd how phantom fairO
Was Monte Rosa hanging thereO
A thousand shadowy pencill'd valleysH
And snowy dells in a golden airO
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Remember how we came at lastC
To Como shower and storm and blastC
Had blown the lake beyond his limitC
And all was flooded and how we pastC
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From Como when the light was grayC
And in my head for half the dayC
The rich Virgilian rustic measureP
Of Lari Maxume all the wayC
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Like ballad burthen music keptC
As on The Lariano creptC
To that fair port below the castleQ
Of Queen Theodolind where we sleptC
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Or hardly slept but watch'd awakeR
A cypress in the moonlight shakeR
The moonlight touching o'er a terraceH
One tall Agav above the lakeR
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What more we took our last adieuC
And up the snowy Splugen drewC
But ere we reach'd the highest summitC
I pluck'd a daisy I gave it youC
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It told of England then to meD
And now it tells of ItalyD
O love we two shall go no longerP
To lands of summer across the seaD
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So dear a life your arms enfoldC
Whose crying is a cry for goldC
Yet here to night in this dark cityD
When ill and weary alone and coldC
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I found tho' crush'd to hard and dryS
This nurseling of another skyS
Still in the little book you lent meD
And where you tenderly laid it byS
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And I forgot the clouded ForthT
The gloom that saddens Heaven and EarthU
The bitter east the misty summerP
And gray metropolis of the NorthT
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Perchance to lull the throbs of painL
Perchance to charm a vacant brainL
Perchance to dream you still beside meD
My fancy fled to the South againL

Alfred Lord Tennyson



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