Count Giacomo Leopardi

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To The Beloved Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDEFGHI JKKLLMNOPQQ RSGKKTUUVWW ANNNXYNNZSS A2SB2C2C2ZD2NZUU

Beauty beloved who hast my heart inspiredA
Seen from afar or with thy face concealedB
Save when in visions of the night revealedB
Or seen in daydreams brightC
When all the fields are filled with lightC
And Nature's smile is sweetD
Say hast thou blessedE
Some golden age of innocenceF
And floatest now a shadow o'er the earthG
Or hath Fate's envious doomH
Reserved thee for some happier day to comeI
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To see thee e'er aliveJ
No hope remains to meK
Unless perchance when from this body freeK
My wandering spirit loneL
O'er some new path to some new world hath flownL
E'en here at first I at the dawnM
Of this my day so dreary and forlornN
Sought thee to guide me on my weary wayO
But none on earth resembles thee E'en ifP
One were in looks and acts and words thy peerQ
Though like thee she less lovely would appearQ
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Amidst the deepest griefR
That fate hath e'er to human lot assignedS
Could one but love thee on this earthG
Alive and such as my thought painteth theeK
He would be happy in his miseryK
And I most clearly see how stillT
As in my earliest daysU
Thy love would make me cling to virtue's waysU
Unto my grief heaven hath no comfort broughtV
And yet with thee this mortal life would seemW
Like that in heaven of which we fondly dreamW
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Along the valleys where is heardA
The song of the laborious husbandmanN
And where I sit and moanN
O'er youth's illusions goneN
Along the hills where I recall with tearsX
The vanished joys and hopes of earlier yearsY
At thought of thee my heart revives againN
O could I still thy image dear retainN
In this dark age and in this baleful airZ
To loss of thee O let me be resignedS
And in thy image still some comfort findS
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If thou art one of thoseA2
Ideas eternal which the Eternal MindS
Refused in earthly form to clotheB2
Nor would subject unto the pain and strifeC2
Of this our frail and dreary lifeC2
Or if thou hast a mansion fairZ
Amid the boundless realms of spaceD2
That lighted is by a more genial sunN
And breathest there a more benignant airZ
From here where brief and wretched are our daysU
Receive thy humble lover's hymn of praiseU

Count Giacomo Leopardi



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