Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBB ACDBBD| I | A |
| FROM THE ITALIAN OF GIOVANNI STROZZI | B |
| Night whom in shape so sweet thou here may'st see | B |
| Sleeping was by an Angel sculptured thus | B |
| In marble and since she sleeps hath life like us | B |
| Thou doubt'st Awake her she will speak to thee | B |
| - | |
| II | A |
| FROM THE ITALIAN OF MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI | C |
| Sleep likes me well and better yet to know | D |
| I am but stone While shame and grief must be | B |
| Good hap is mine to feel not nor to see | B |
| Take heed then lest thou wake me ah speak low | D |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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