On The Portrait Of A Beautiful Woman, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEBEFFGHGIBJKKFLMD M NOOPFQFRSFTFUTFFVFWX FFRYPPFFYZZY FA2RRFB2FB2| CARVED ON HER MONUMENT | A |
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| Such wast thou now in earth below | B |
| Dust and a skeleton thou art | C |
| Above thy bones and clay | D |
| Here vainly placed by loving hands | E |
| Sole guardian of memory and woe | B |
| The image of departed beauty stands | E |
| Mute motionless it seems with pensive gaze | F |
| To watch the flight of the departing days | F |
| That gentle look that wheresoe'er it fell | G |
| As now it seems to fall | H |
| Held fast the gazer with its magic spell | G |
| That lip from which as from some copious urn | I |
| Redundant pleasure seems to overflow | B |
| That neck on which love once so fondly hung | J |
| That loving hand whose tender pressure still | K |
| The hand it clasped with trembling joy would thrill | K |
| That bosom whose transparent loveliness | F |
| The color from the gazer's cheek would steal | L |
| All these have been and now remains alone | M |
| A wretched heap of bones and clay | D |
| Concealed from sight by this benignant stone | M |
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| To this hath Fate reduced | N |
| The form that when with life it beamed | O |
| To us heaven's liveliest image seemed | O |
| O Nature's endless mystery | P |
| To day of grand and lofty thoughts the source | F |
| And feelings not to be described | Q |
| Beauty rules all and seems | F |
| Like some mysterious splendor from on high | R |
| Forth darted to illuminate | S |
| This dreary wilderness | F |
| Of superhuman fate | T |
| Of fortunate realms and golden worlds | F |
| A token and a hope secure | U |
| To give our mortal state | T |
| To morrow for some trivial cause | F |
| Loathsome to sight abominable base | F |
| Becomes what but a little time before | V |
| Wore such an angel face | F |
| And from our minds in the same breath | W |
| The grand conception it inspired | X |
| Swift vanishes and leaves no trace | F |
| What infinite desires | F |
| What visions grand and high | R |
| In our exalted thought | Y |
| With magic power creates true harmony | P |
| O'er a delicious and mysterious sea | P |
| The exulting spirit glides | F |
| As some bold swimmer sports in Ocean's tides | F |
| But oh the mischief that is wrought | Y |
| If but one accent out of tune | Z |
| Assaults the ear Alas how soon | Z |
| Our paradise is turned to naught | Y |
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| O human nature why is this | F |
| If frail and vile throughout | A2 |
| If shadow dust thou art say why | R |
| Hast thou such fancies aspirations high | R |
| And yet if framed for nobler ends | F |
| Alas why are we doomed | B2 |
| To see our highest motives truest thoughts | F |
| By such base causes kindled and consumed | B2 |
Count Giacomo Leopardi
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