Lines On The Monument Of Giuseppe Mazzini Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDDEDEFDFDGHGH CICJKDADLMLMNOPOCHCH CQCQCLCL

Italia mother of the souls of menA
Mother divineB
Of all that served thee best with sword or penA
All sons of thineB
Thou knowest that here the likeness of the bestC
Before thee standsD
The head most high the heart found faithfullestC
The purest handsD
Above the fume and foam of time that flitsD
The soul we knowE
Now sits on high where Alighieri sitsD
With AngeloE
Not his own heavenly tongue hath heavenly speechF
Enough to sayD
What this man was whose praise no thought may reachF
No words can weighD
Since man's first mother brought to mortal birthG
Her first born sonH
Such grace befell not ever man on earthG
As crowns this oneH
Of God nor man was ever this thing saidC
That he could giveI
Life back to her who gave him whence his deadC
Mother might liveJ
But this man found his mother dead and slainK
With fast sealed eyesD
And bade the dead rise up and live againA
And she did riseD
And all the world was bright with her through himL
But dark with strifeM
Like heaven's own sun that storming clouds bedimL
Was all his lifeM
Life and the clouds are vanished hate and fearN
Have had their spanO
Of time to hunt and are not he is hereP
The sunlike manO
City superb that hadst Columbus firstC
For sovereign sonH
Be prouder that thy breast hath later nurstC
This mightier oneH
Glory be his for ever while his landC
Lives and is freeQ
As with controlling breath and sovereign handC
He bade her beQ
Earth shows to heaven the names by thousands toldC
That crown her fameL
But highest of all that heaven and earth beholdC
Mazzini's nameL

Algernon Charles Swinburne



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