The Picture Of Sappho Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDDCA EEFGGFA HHFIIFJ KKFLLFJ MMNOOOJ PPQRSQJ TTUVVUJ OOFJJFU WWXOOXU OOFYZF| I | A |
| - | |
| THOU whose impassion'd face | B |
| The Painter loves to trace | B |
| Theme of the Sculptor's art and Poet's story | C |
| How many a wand'ring thought | D |
| Thy loveliness hath brought | D |
| Warming the heart with its imagined glory | C |
| II | A |
| - | |
| Yet was it History's truth | E |
| That tale of wasted youth | E |
| Of endless grief and Love forsaken pining | F |
| What wert thou thou whose woe | G |
| The old traditions show | G |
| With Fame's cold light around thee vainly shining | F |
| III | A |
| - | |
| Didst thou indeed sit there | H |
| In languid lone despair | H |
| Thy harp neglected by thee idly lying | F |
| Thy soft and earnest gaze | I |
| Watching the lingering rays | I |
| In the far west where summer day was dying | F |
| IV | J |
| - | |
| While with low rustling wings | K |
| Among the quivering strings | K |
| The murmuring breeze faint melody was making | F |
| As though it wooed thy hand | L |
| To strike with new command | L |
| Or mourn'd with thee because thy heart was breaking | F |
| V | J |
| - | |
| Didst thou as day by day | M |
| Roll'd heavily away | M |
| And left thee anxious nerveless and dejected | N |
| Wandering thro' bowers beloved | O |
| Roving where he had roved | O |
| Yearn for his presence as for one expected | O |
| VI | J |
| - | |
| Didst thou with fond wild eyes | P |
| Fix'd on the starry skies | P |
| Wait feverishly for each new day to waken | Q |
| Trusting some glorious morn | R |
| Might witness his return | S |
| Unwilling to believe thyself forsaken | Q |
| VII | J |
| - | |
| And when conviction came | T |
| Chilling that heart of flame | T |
| Didst thou O saddest of earth's grieving daughters | U |
| From the Leucadian steep | V |
| Dash with a desperate leap | V |
| And hide thyself within the whelming waters | U |
| VIII | J |
| - | |
| Yea in their hollow breast | O |
| Thy heart at length found rest | O |
| The ever moving waves above thee closing | F |
| The winds whose ruffling sigh | J |
| Swept the blue waters by | J |
| Disturb'd thee not thou wert in peace reposing | F |
| IX | U |
| - | |
| Such is the tale they tell | W |
| Vain was thy beauty's spell | W |
| Vain all the praise thy song could still inspire | X |
| Though many a happy band | O |
| Rung with less skilful hand | O |
| The borrowed love notes of thy echoing lyre | X |
| X | U |
| - | |
| FAME to thy breaking heart | O |
| No comfort could impart | O |
| In vain thy brow the laurel wreath was wearing | F |
| One grief and one alone | Y |
| Could bow thy bright head down | Z |
| Thou wert a WOMAN and wert left despairing | F |
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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