Salvini In America Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HI JKJL MNMO PQPQ QRQR QQQQ SFSF QBCome gentlemen your gold | A |
Thanks welcome to the show | B |
To hear a story told | A |
In words you do not know | B |
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Now great Salvini rise | C |
And thunder through your tears | D |
Aha friends let your eyes | C |
Interpret to your ears | E |
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Gods 't is a goodly game | F |
Observe his stride how grand | G |
When legs like his declaim | F |
Who can misunderstand | G |
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See how that arm goes round | H |
It says as plain as day | I |
'I love ' 'The lost is found ' | - |
'Well met sir ' or 'Away ' | - |
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And mark the drawing down | J |
Of brows How accurate | K |
The language of that frown | J |
Pain gentlemen or hate | L |
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Those of the critic trade | M |
Swear it is all as clear | N |
As if his tongue were made | M |
To fit an English ear | O |
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Hear that Italian phrase | P |
Greek to your sense 't is true | Q |
But shrug expression gaze | P |
Well they are Grecian too | Q |
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But it is Art God wot | Q |
Its tongue to all is known | R |
Faith he to whom 't were not | Q |
Would better hold his own | R |
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Shakespeare says act and word | Q |
Must match together true | Q |
From what you've seen and heard | Q |
How can you doubt they do | Q |
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Enchanting drama Mark | S |
The crowd 'from pit to dome' | F |
One box alone is dark | S |
The prompter stays at home | F |
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Stupendous artist You | Q |
Are lord of joy and woe | B |
We thrill if you say 'Boo ' | - |
And thrill if you say 'Bo ' | - |
Ambrose Bierce
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