In Vita: Canzone Xi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABCCDEEDFF GCHGCHHIJJICC CGKCGKKLHHLHH GCMGCMNOOLLPP GNQGNHHRSSTGGUVW| O waters fresh and sweet and clear | A |
| Where bathed her lovely frame | B |
| Who seems the only lady unto me | C |
| O gentle branch and dear | A |
| Sighing I speak thy name | B |
| Thou column for her shapely thighs her supple knee | C |
| O grass O flowers which she | C |
| Swept with her gown that veiled | D |
| The angelic breast unseen | E |
| O sacred air serene | E |
| Whence the divine eyed Love my heart assailed | D |
| By all of ye be heard | F |
| This my supreme lament my dying word | F |
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| Oh if it be my fate | G |
| As Heaven shall so decree | C |
| That Love shall close for me my weeping eyes | H |
| Some courteous friend I supplicate | G |
| Midst these to bury me | C |
| Whilst my enfranchised spirit homeward flies | H |
| Less dreadful death shall rise | H |
| If I may bear this hope | I |
| To that mysterious goal | J |
| For ne'er did weary soul | J |
| Find a more restful spot in all Earth's scope | I |
| Nor in a grave more tranquil could win free | C |
| From outworn flesh and weary limbs to flee | C |
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| Perchance the time shall be | C |
| When to my place of rest | G |
| With milder grace my wild fawn shall return | K |
| Here where she looked on me | C |
| Upon that day thrice blest | G |
| Then she shall bend her radiant eyes that yearn | K |
| In search of me and piteous sight shall learn | K |
| That I amidst the stones am clay | L |
| May love inspire her in such wise | H |
| With gentlest breath of sighs | H |
| That I a stony corpse shall hear her pray | L |
| And force the very skies | H |
| That I may wipe the tears from her dear eyes | H |
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| From the fair boughs descended | G |
| Thrice precious memory | C |
| Upon her lap a shower of fragrant bloom | M |
| Amidst that glory splendid | G |
| Humbly reposed she | C |
| Attired as with an aureole's golden gloom | M |
| Some blossoms edged her skirt and some | N |
| Fell on her yellow curls | O |
| Like burnished gold and pearls | O |
| Even so they looked to me upon that day | L |
| Some on the ground some on the river lay | L |
| Some lightly fluttering above | P |
| Encircling her seemed whispering Here reigns Love | P |
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| How many times I cried | G |
| As holy fear o'ercame | N |
| Surely this creature sprang from Paradise | Q |
| Forgetting all beside | G |
| Her goddess mien her frame | N |
| Her face her words her lovely smile her eyes | H |
| All these did so devise | H |
| To win me from the truth alas | R |
| That I did say and sigh | S |
| How came I hither when and why | S |
| Deeming myself in heaven not where I was | T |
| Henceforth this grassy spot | G |
| I love so much peace elsewhere find I not | G |
| My Song wert thou adorned to thy desire | U |
| Thou couldst go boldly forth | V |
| And wander from my lips o'er all the earth | W |
Emma Lazarus
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