Her Monument, The Image Cut Thereon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDEFGHA BIJAIKAHABAL BMNHJAAAA OAPFAQRSAI TAUAAVAM IAWXAAAAA| FROM THE ITALIAN OF LEOPARDI | A |
| - | |
| Such wast thou | B |
| Who art now | B |
| But buried dust and rusted skeleton | C |
| Above the bones and mire | D |
| Motionless placed in vain | E |
| Mute mirror of the flight of speeding years | F |
| Sole guard of grief | G |
| Sole guard of memory | H |
| Standeth this image of the beauty sped | A |
| - | |
| O glance when thou wast still as thou art now | B |
| How hast thou set the fire | I |
| A tremble in men's veins lip curved high | J |
| To mind me of some urn of full delight | A |
| O throat girt round of old with swift desire | I |
| O palms of Love that in your wonted ways | K |
| Not once but many a day | A |
| Felt hands turn ice a sudden touching ye | H |
| That ye were once of all the grace ye had | A |
| That which remaineth now | B |
| Shameful most sad | A |
| Finds 'neath this rock fit mould fit resting place | L |
| - | |
| And still when fate recalleth | B |
| Even that semblance that appears amongst us | M |
| Is like to heaven's most 'live imagining | N |
| All all our life's eternal mystery | H |
| To day on high | J |
| Mounts from our mighty thoughts and from the fount | A |
| Of sense untellable Beauty | A |
| That seems to be some quivering splendour cast | A |
| By the immortal nature on this quicksand | A |
| - | |
| And by surhuman fates | O |
| Given to mortal state | A |
| To be a sign and an hope made secure | P |
| Of blissful kingdoms and the aureate spheres | F |
| And on the morrow by some lightsome twist | A |
| Shameful in sight abject abominable | Q |
| All this angelic aspect can return | R |
| And be but what it was | S |
| With all the admirable concepts that moved from it | A |
| Swept from the mind with it in its departure | I |
| - | |
| Infinite things desired lofty visions | T |
| 'Got on desirous thoughts by natural virtue | A |
| And the wise concord whence through delicious seas | U |
| The arcane spirit of the whole Mankind | A |
| Turns hardy pilot and if one wrong note | A |
| Strike the tympanum | V |
| Instantly | A |
| That paradise is hurled to nothingness | M |
| - | |
| O mortal nature | I |
| If thou art | A |
| Frail and so vile in all | W |
| How canst thou reach so high with thy poor sense | X |
| Yet if thou art | A |
| Noble in any part | A |
| How is the noblest of thy speech and thought | A |
| So lightly wrought | A |
| Or to such base occasion lit and quenched | A |
Ezra Pound
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