Sinfonia Eroica Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEFEGGHIHJJK KIILLLMNMGGOOPPQQRRS TT| i To Sylvia i | A |
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| My Love my Love it was a day in June | B |
| A mellow drowsy golden afternoon | B |
| And all the eager people thronging came | C |
| To that great hall drawn by the magic name | C |
| Of one a high magician who can raise | D |
| The spirits of the past and future days | D |
| And draw the dreams from out the secret breast | E |
| Giving them life and shape | F |
| I with the rest | E |
| Sat there athirst atremble for the sound | G |
| And as my aimless glances wandered round | G |
| Far off across the hush'd expectant throng | H |
| I saw your face that fac'd mine | I |
| Clear and strong | H |
| Rush'd forth the sound a mighty mountain stream | J |
| Across the clust'ring heads mine eyes did seem | J |
| By subtle forces drawn your eyes to meet | K |
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| Then you the melody the summer heat | K |
| Mingled in all my blood and made it wine | I |
| Straight I forgot the world's great woe and mine | I |
| My spirit's murky lead grew molten fire | L |
| Despair itself was rapture | L |
| Ever higher | L |
| Stronger and clearer rose the mighty strain | M |
| Then sudden fell then all was still again | N |
| And I sank back quivering as one in pain | M |
| Brief was the pause then 'mid a hush profound | G |
| Slow on the waiting air swell'd forth a sound | G |
| So wondrous sweet that each man held his breath | O |
| A measur'd mystic melody of death | O |
| Then back you lean'd your head and I could note | P |
| The upward outline of your perfect throat | P |
| And ever as the music smote the air | Q |
| Mine eyes from far held fast your body fair | Q |
| And in that wondrous moment seem'd to fade | R |
| My life's great woe and grow an empty shade | R |
| Which had not been nor was not | S |
| And I knew | T |
| Not which was sound and which O Love was you | T |
Amy Levy
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