Love And Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEFFEGHIHJKFFLM LNFFOO PQQRRSTFHUHUVLLEWE WXXMWQYFFZA2B2FXXC2B 2D2FFFAFFFE2F2F2D2NT D2G2H2I2H2A2G2G2J2FK 2G2FFFL2FFM2M2M2FN2M 2FM2M2M2O2O2M2BBWP2W M2M2M2M2FFM2Q2Q2FFM2 M2M2Children of Fate in the same breath | A |
Created were they Love and Death | A |
Such fair creations ne'er were seen | B |
Or here below or in the heaven serene | B |
The first the source of happiness | C |
The fount whence flows the greatest bliss | D |
That in the sea of being e'er is found | E |
The last each sorrow gently lulls | F |
Each harsh decree of Fate annuls | F |
Fair child with beauty crowned | E |
Sweet to behold not such | G |
As cowards paint her in their fright | H |
She in young Love's companionship | I |
Doth often take delight | H |
As they o'er mortal paths together fly | J |
Chief comforters of every loyal heart | K |
Nor ever is the heart more wise | F |
Than when Love smites it nor defies | F |
More scornfully life's misery | L |
And for no other lord | M |
Will it all dangers face so readily | L |
When thou thy aid dost lend | N |
O Love is courage born or it revives | F |
And wise in deeds the race of man becomes | F |
And not as it is prone | O |
In fruitless thought alone | O |
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And when first in our being's depth | P |
This passion deep is born | Q |
Though happy we are still forlorn | Q |
A languor strange doth o'er us steal | R |
A strange desire of death we feel | R |
I know not why but such we ever prove | S |
The first effect of true and potent love | T |
It may be that this wilderness | F |
Then first appals our sight | H |
And earth henceforth to us a dreary waste | U |
Appears without that new supreme delight | H |
That in our thought is fondly traced | U |
And yet our hearts foreboding feel the storm | V |
Within that it may cause the misery | L |
We long for rest we long to flee | L |
Hoping some friendly haven may be found | E |
Of refuge from the fierce desire | W |
That raging roaring darkens all around | E |
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And when this formidable power | W |
Hath his whole soul possessed | X |
And raging care will give his heart no rest | X |
How many times implored | M |
With most intense desire | W |
Art thou O Death by the poor wretch forlorn | Q |
How oft at eve how oft at dawn | Y |
His weary frame upon the couch he throws | F |
Too happy if he never rose | F |
In hopeless conflict with his pain | Z |
Nor e'er beheld the bitter light again | A2 |
And oft at sound of funeral bell | B2 |
And solemn chant that guides | F |
Departed souls unto eternal rest | X |
With sighs most ardent from his inmost breast | X |
How hath he envied him | C2 |
Who with the dead has gone to dwell | B2 |
The very humblest of his kind | D2 |
The simple rustic hind who knows | F |
No charm that knowledge gives | F |
The lowliest country lass that lives | F |
Who at the very thought of death | A |
Doth feel her hair in horror rise | F |
Will calmly face its agonies | F |
Upon the terrors of the tomb will gaze | F |
With fixed undaunted look | E2 |
Will o'er the steel and poison brood | F2 |
In meditative mood | F2 |
And in her narrow mind | D2 |
The kindly charm of dying comprehend | N |
So much the discipline of Love | T |
Hath unto Death all hearts inclined | D2 |
Full often when this inward woe | G2 |
Such pass has reached as mortal strength | H2 |
No longer can endure | I2 |
The feeble body yields at length | H2 |
To its fierce blows and timely then | A2 |
Benignant Death her friendly power doth show | G2 |
Or else Love drives her hapless victims so | G2 |
Alike the simple clown | J2 |
And tender country lass | F |
That on themselves their desperate hands they lay | K2 |
And so are borne unto the shades below | G2 |
The world but laughs at their distress | F |
Whom heaven with peace and length of days doth bless | F |
To fervid happy restless souls | F |
May fate the one or other still concede | L2 |
Sweet sovereigns friendly to our race | F |
Whose power throughout the universe | F |
Such miracles hath wrought | M2 |
As naught resembles nor can aught | M2 |
Save that of Fate itself exceed | M2 |
And thou whom from my earliest years | F |
Still honored I invoke | N2 |
O lovely Death the only friend | M2 |
Of sufferers in this vale of tears | F |
If I have ever sought | M2 |
Thy princely state to vindicate | M2 |
From the affronts of the ungrateful crowd | M2 |
Do not delay incline thy ear | O2 |
Unto thy weary suppliant here | O2 |
These sad eyes close forever to the light | M2 |
And let me rest in peace serene | B |
O thou of all the ages Queen | B |
Me surely wilt thou find whate'er the hour | W |
When thou thy wings unfoldest to my prayer | P2 |
With front erect the cruel power | W |
Defying still of Fate | M2 |
Nor will I praise in fulsome mood | M2 |
The scourging hand that with my blood | M2 |
The blood of innocence is stained | M2 |
Nor bless it as the human race | F |
Is wont through custom old and base | F |
Each empty hope with which the world | M2 |
Itself and children would beguile | Q2 |
I'll cast aside each comfort false and vile | Q2 |
In thee alone my hope I'll place | F |
Thou welcome minister of grace | F |
In that sole thought supremely blest | M2 |
That day when my unconscious head | M2 |
May on thy virgin bosom rest | M2 |
Count Giacomo Leopardi
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