Spring In Tuscany Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABC BDEBDF BGHBGH BIJBIJ BKLBKL GMNGMN GFGGEG BOPBOP GGGGGG PQRPQR| Rose red lilies that bloom on the banner | A |
| Rose cheeked gardens that revel in spring | B |
| Rose mouthed acacias that laugh as they climb | C |
| Like plumes for a queen's hand fashioned to fan her | A |
| With wind more soft than a wild dove's wing | B |
| What do they sing in the spring of their time | C |
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| If this be the rose that the world hears singing | B |
| Soft in the soft night loud in the day | D |
| Songs for the fireflies to dance as they hear | E |
| If that be the song of the nightingale springing | B |
| Forth in the form of a rose in May | D |
| What do they say of the way of the year | F |
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| What of the way of the world gone Maying | B |
| What of the work of the buds in the bowers | G |
| What of the will of the wind on the wall | H |
| Fluttering the wall flowers sighing and playing | B |
| Shrinking again as a bird that cowers | G |
| Thinking of hours when the flowers have to fall | H |
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| Out of the throats of the loud birds showering | B |
| Out of the folds where the flag lilies leap | I |
| Out of the mouths of the roses stirred | J |
| Out of the herbs on the walls reflowering | B |
| Out of the heights where the sheer snows sleep | I |
| Out of the deep and the steep one word | J |
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| One from the lips of the lily flames leaping | B |
| The glad red lilies that burn in our sight | K |
| The great live lilies for standard and crown | L |
| One from the steeps where the pines stand sleeping | B |
| One from the deep land one from the height | K |
| One from the light and the might of the town | L |
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| The lowlands laugh with delight of the highlands | G |
| Whence May winds feed them with balm and breath | M |
| From hills that beheld in the years behind | N |
| A shape as of one from the blest souls' islands | G |
| Made fair by a soul too fair for death | M |
| With eyes on the light that should smite them blind | N |
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| Vallombrosa remotely remembers | G |
| Perchance what still to us seems so near | F |
| That time not darkens it change not mars | G |
| The foot that she knew when her leaves were September's | G |
| The face lift up to the star blind seer | E |
| That saw from his prison arisen his stars | G |
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| And Pisa broods on her dead not mourning | B |
| For love of her loveliness given them in fee | O |
| And Prato gleams with the glad monk's gift | P |
| Whose hand was there as the hand of morning | B |
| And Siena set in the sand's red sea | O |
| Lifts loftier her head than the red sand's drift | P |
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| And far to the fair south westward lightens | G |
| Girdled and sandalled and plumed with flowers | G |
| At sunset over the love lit lands | G |
| The hill side's crown where the wild hill brightens | G |
| Saint Fina's town of the Beautiful Towers | G |
| Hailing the sun with a hundred hands | G |
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| Land of us all that have loved thee dearliest | P |
| Mother of men that were lords of man | Q |
| Whose name in the world's heart work a spell | R |
| My last song's light and the star of mine earliest | P |
| As we turn from thee sweet who wast ours for a span | Q |
| Fare well we may not who say farewell | R |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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