The Widow Of Crescentius : Part Ii. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGHIJKLMM NOPPBBPPQRMQSSAATTU MUVWXX MYZZA2A2B2B2C2C2CC WWD2D2MYPPEEE2C2B2B2 F2F2MYG2G2WWYYH2I2J2 K2K2K2K2K2K2 WWK2K2K2K2MK2 K2K2B2L2K2K2YYK2K2B2 B2WK2NNNFFK2K2P K2P M2M2YYNNYYFFBBMK2K2K 2WWN2N2YYNN K2K2K2K2B2B2WWWWK2K2 WWK2K2FFPPK2K2K2K2WW YYK2K2YYK2K2H2H2O2O2 WWYYYYWWNNWWK2K2YYNN K2K2YY YYK2K2O2O2RRYYWWP2P2 K2K2WWK2Hast thou a scene that is not spread | A |
With records of thy glory fled | A |
A monument that doth not tell | B |
The tale of liberty's farewell | B |
Italia thou art but a grave | C |
Where flowers luxuriate o'er the brave | C |
And nature gives her treasures birth | D |
O'er all that hath been great on earth | D |
Yet smile thy heavens as once they smiled | E |
When thou wert freedom's favoured child | E |
Though fane and tomb alike are low | F |
Time hath not dimmed thy sunbeam's glow | F |
Oh yet though by thy sorrows bent | G |
In nature's pomp magnificent | H |
What marvel if when all was lost | I |
Still on thy bright enchanted coast | J |
Though many an omen warned him thence | K |
Lingered the lord of eloquence | L |
Still gazing on the lovely sky | M |
Whose radiance wooed him but to die | M |
Like him | N |
who | O |
would not linger there | P |
Where heaven earth ocean all are fair | P |
Who 'midst thy glowing scenes could dwell | B |
Nor bid awhile his griefs farewell | B |
Hath not thy pure and genial air | P |
Balm for all sadness but despair | P |
No there are pangs whose deep worn trace | Q |
Not all | R |
thy | M |
magic can efface | Q |
Hearts by unkindness wrung may learn | S |
The world and all its gifts to spurn | S |
Time may steal on with silent tread | A |
And dry the tear that mourns the dead | A |
May change fond love subdue regret | T |
And teach e'en vengeance to forget | T |
But thou Remorse there is no charm | U |
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Thy | M |
sting avenger to disarm | U |
Vain are bright suns and laughing skies | V |
To soothe thy victim's agonies | W |
The heart once made thy burning throne | X |
Still while it beats is thine alone | X |
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In vain for Otho's joyless eye | M |
Smile the fair scenes of Italy | Y |
As through her landscapes' rich array | Z |
The imperial pilgrim bends his way | Z |
Thy form Crescentius on his sight | A2 |
Rises when nature laughs in light | A2 |
Glides round him at the midnight hour | B2 |
Is present in his festal bower | B2 |
With awful voice and frowning mien | C2 |
By all but him unheard unseen | C2 |
Oh thus to shadows of the grave | C |
Be every tyrant still a slave | C |
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Where through Gargano's woody dells | W |
O'er bending oaks the north wind swells | W |
A sainted hermit's lowly tomb | D2 |
Is bosomed in umbrageous gloom | D2 |
In shades that saw him live and die | M |
Beneath their waving canopy | Y |
'Twas his as legends tell to share | P |
The converse of immortals there | P |
Around that dweller of the wild | E |
There 'bright appearances' have smiled | E |
And angel wings at eve have been | E2 |
Gleaming the shadowy boughs between | C2 |
And oft from that secluded bower | B2 |
Hath breathed at midnight's calmer hour | B2 |
A swell of viewless harps a sound | F2 |
Of warbled anthems pealing round | F2 |
Oh none but voices of the sky | M |
Might wake that thrilling harmony | Y |
Whose tones whose very echoes made | G2 |
An Eden of the lonely shade | G2 |
Years have gone by the hermit sleeps | W |
Amidst Gargano's woods and steeps | W |
Ivy and flowers have half o'ergrown | Y |
And veiled his low sepulchral stone | Y |
Celestial footsteps haunt the hill | H2 |
And oft the awe struck mountaineer | I2 |
Aerial vesper hymns may hear | J2 |
Around those forest precincts float | K2 |
Soft solemn clear but still remote | K2 |
Oft will Affliction breathe her plaint | K2 |
To that rude shrine's departed saint | K2 |
And deem that spirits of the blest | K2 |
There shed sweet influence o'er her breast | K2 |
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And thither Otho now repairs | W |
To soothe his soul with vows and prayers | W |
And if for him on holy ground | K2 |
The lost one Peace may yet be found | K2 |
'Midst rocks and forests by the bed | K2 |
Where calmly sleep the sainted dead | K2 |
She dwells remote from heedless eye | M |
With Nature's lonely majesty | K2 |
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Vain vain the search his troubled breast | K2 |
Nor vow nor penance lulls to rest | K2 |
The weary pilgrimage is o'er | B2 |
The hopes that cheered it are no more | L2 |
Then sinks his soul and day by day | K2 |
Youth's buoyant energies decay | K2 |
The light of health his eye hath flown | Y |
The glow that tinged his cheek is gone | Y |
Joyless as one on whom is laid | K2 |
Some baleful spell that bids him fade | K2 |
Extending its mysterious power | B2 |
O'er every scene o'er every hour | B2 |
E'en thus | W |
he | K2 |
withers and to him | N |
He withers in that glorious clime | N |
Where Nature laughs in scorn of Time | N |
And suns that shed on all below | F |
Their full and vivifying glow | F |
From him alone their power withhold | K2 |
And leaves his heart in darkness cold | K2 |
Earth blooms around him heaven is fair | P |
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He | K2 |
only seems to perish there | P |
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Yet sometimes will a transient smile | M2 |
Play o'er his faded cheek awhile | M2 |
When breathes his minstrel boy a strain | Y |
Of power to lull all earthly pain | Y |
So wildly sweet its notes might seem | N |
The ethereal music of a dream | N |
A spirit's voice from worlds unknown | Y |
Deep thrilling power in every tone | Y |
Sweet is that lay and yet its flow | F |
Hath language only given to woe | F |
And if at times its wakening swell | B |
Some tale of glory seems to tell | B |
Soon the proud notes of triumph die | M |
Lost in a dirge's harmony | K2 |
Oh many a pang the heart hath proved | K2 |
Hath deeply suffered fondly loved | K2 |
Ere the sad strain could catch from thence | W |
Such deep impassioned eloquence | W |
Yes gaze on him that minstrel boy | N2 |
He is no child of hope and joy | N2 |
Though few his years yet have they been | Y |
Such as leave traces on the mien | Y |
And o'er the roses of our prime | N |
Breathe other blights than those of time | N |
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Yet seems his spirit wild and proud | K2 |
By grief unsoftened and unbowed | K2 |
Oh there are sorrows which impart | K2 |
A sternness foreign to the heart | K2 |
And rushing with an earthquake's power | B2 |
That makes a desert in an hour | B2 |
Rouse the dread passions in their course | W |
As tempests wake the billows' force | W |
'Tis sad on youthful Guido's face | W |
The stamp of woes like these to trace | W |
Oh where can ruins awe mankind | K2 |
Dark as the ruins of the mind | K2 |
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His mien is lofty but his gaze | W |
Too well a wandering soul betrays | W |
His full dark eye at times is bright | K2 |
With strange and momentary light | K2 |
Whose quick uncertain flashes throw | F |
O'er his pale cheek a hectic glow | F |
And oft his features and his air | P |
A shade of troubled mystery wear | P |
A glance of hurried wildness fraught | K2 |
With some unfathomable thought | K2 |
Whate'er that thought still unexpressed | K2 |
Dwells the sad secret in his breast | K2 |
The pride his haughty brow reveals | W |
All other passion well conceals | W |
He breathes each wounded feeling's tone | Y |
In music's eloquence alone | Y |
His soul's deep voice is only poured | K2 |
Through his full song and swelling chord | K2 |
He seeks no friend but shuns the train | Y |
Of courtiers with a proud disdain | Y |
And save when Otho bids his lay | K2 |
Its half unearthly power essay | K2 |
In hall or bower the heart to thrill | H2 |
His haunts are wild and lonely still | H2 |
Far distant from the heedless throng | O2 |
He roves old Tiber's banks along | O2 |
Where Empire's desolate remains | W |
Lie scattered o'er the silent plains | W |
Or lingering 'midst each ruined shrine | Y |
That strews the desert Palatine | Y |
With mournful yet commanding mien | Y |
Like the sad genius of the scene | Y |
Entranced in awful thought appears | W |
To commune with departed years | W |
Or at the dead of night when Rome | N |
Seems of heroic shades the home | N |
When Tiber's murmuring voice recalls | W |
The mighty to their ancient halls | W |
When hushed is every meaner sound | K2 |
And the deep moonlight calm around | K2 |
Leaves to the solemn scene alone | Y |
The majesty of ages flown | Y |
A pilgrim to each hero's tomb | N |
He wanders through the sacred gloom | N |
And 'midst those dwellings of decay | K2 |
At times will breathe so sad a lay | K2 |
So wild a grandeur in each tone | Y |
'Tis like a dirge for empires gone | Y |
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Awake thy pealing harp again | Y |
But breathe a more exulting strain | Y |
Young Guido for awhile forgot | K2 |
Be the dark secrets of thy lot | K2 |
And rouse the inspiring soul of song | O2 |
To speed the banquet's hour along | O2 |
The feast is spread the music's call | R |
Is echoing through the royal hall | R |
And banners wave and trophies shine | Y |
O'er stately guests in glittering line | Y |
And Otho seeks awhile to chase | W |
The thoughts he never can erase | W |
And bid the voice whose murmurs deep | P2 |
Rise like a spirit on his sleep | P2 |
The still small voice of conscience die | K2 |
Lost in the din of revelry | K2 |
On his pale brow dejection lowers | W |
But that shall yield to festal hours | W |
A gloom is in hi | K2 |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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