Two Backgrounds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEEFFFFF GBFBFHIJHGKKG| I LA VIERGE AU DONATEUR | A |
| HERE by the ample river's argent sweep | B |
| Bosomed in tilth and vintage to her walls | C |
| A tower crowned Cybele in armoured sleep | B |
| The city lies fat plenty in her halls | C |
| With calm parochial spires that hold in fee | D |
| The friendly gables clustered at their base | E |
| And equipoised o'er tower and market place | E |
| The Gothic minister's winged immensity | F |
| And in that narrow burgh with equal mood | F |
| Two placid hearts to all life's good resigned | F |
| Might from the altar to the lych gate find | F |
| Long years of peace and dreamless plenitude | F |
| - | |
| II MONA LISA | G |
| Yon strange blue city crowns a scarped steep | B |
| No mortal foot hath bloodlessly essayed | F |
| Dreams and illusions beacon from its keep | B |
| But at the gate an Angel bares his blade | F |
| And tales are told of those who thought to gain | H |
| At dawn its ramparts but when evening fell | I |
| Far off they saw each fading pinnacle | J |
| Lit with wild lightnings from the heaven of pain | H |
| Yet there two souls whom life's perversities | G |
| Had mocked with want in plenty tears in mirth | K |
| Might meet in dreams ungarmented of earth | K |
| And drain Joy's awful chalice to the lees | G |
Edith Wharton
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