Alle Zattere Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHEEIJ KKAALMABAANNOOPPQRJJ SSTUVV| Only to live only to be | A |
| In Venice is enough for me | A |
| To be a beggar and to lie | B |
| At home beneath the equal sky | B |
| To feel the sun to drink the night | C |
| Had been enough for my delight | C |
| Happy because the sun allowed | D |
| The luxury of being proud | D |
| Not to some only but to all | E |
| The right to lie along the wall | E |
| Here my ambition dies I ask | F |
| No more than some half idle task | F |
| To be done idly and to fill | G |
| Some gaps of leisure when I will | G |
| I care not if the world forget | H |
| That it was ever in my debt | H |
| I care not where its prizes fall | E |
| I long for nothing having all | E |
| The sun each morning on his way | I |
| Calls for me at the Zattere | J |
| I wake and greet him I go out | K |
| Meet him and follow him about | K |
| We spend the day together he | A |
| Goes to bed early as for me | A |
| I make the moon my mistress prove | L |
| Constant to my inconstant love | M |
| For she is coy with me will hie | A |
| To my arms amorously and fly | B |
| Ere I have kissed her ah but she | A |
| She it is to eternity | A |
| I adore only and her smile | N |
| Bewilders the enchanted isle | N |
| To more celestial magic glows | O |
| At once the crystal and the rose | O |
| The crazy lover of the moon | P |
| I hold her on the still lagoon | P |
| Sometimes I hold her in my arms | Q |
| 'Tis her cold silver kiss that warms | R |
| My blood to singing and puts fire | J |
| Into the heart of my desire | J |
| And all desire in Venice dies | S |
| To such diviner lunacies | S |
| Life dreams itself the world goes on | T |
| Oblivious in oblivion | U |
| Life dreams itself contents to keep | V |
| Happy immortality in sleep | V |
Arthur Symons
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