Stanzas To The Po Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCBD EFEF GHGI JKLM NOPO BQBG RSRT UVUV WXWX YZYZ WBWB A2B2A2C2River that rollest by the ancient walls | A |
Where dwells the Lady of my love when she | B |
Walks by thy brink and there perchance recalls | A |
A faint and fleeting memory of me | B |
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What if thy deep and ample stream should be | B |
A mirror of my heart where she may read | C |
The thousand thoughts I now betray to thee | B |
Wild as thy wave and headlong as thy speed | D |
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What do I say a mirror of my heart | E |
Are not thy waters sweeping dark and strong | F |
Such as my feelings were and are thou art | E |
And such as thou art were my passions long | F |
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Time may have somewhat tamed them not for ever | G |
Thou overflow'st thy banks and not for aye | H |
Thy bosom overboils congenial river | G |
Thy floods subside and mine have sunk away | I |
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But left long wrecks behind and now again | J |
Borne in our old unchanged career we move | K |
Thou tendest wildly onwards to the main | L |
And I to loving one I should not love | M |
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The current I behold will sweep beneath | N |
Her native walls and murmur at her feet | O |
Her eyes will look on thee when she shall breathe | P |
The twilight air unharmed by summer's heat | O |
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She will look on thee I have looked on thee | B |
Full of that thought and from that moment ne'er | Q |
Thy waters could I dream of name or see | B |
Without the inseparable sigh for her | G |
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Her bright eyes will be imaged in thy stream | R |
Yes they will meet the wave I gaze on now | S |
Mine cannot witness even in a dream | R |
That happy wave repass me in its flow | T |
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The wave that bears my tears returns no more | U |
Will she return by whom that wave shall sweep | V |
Both tread thy banks both wander on thy shore | U |
I by thy source she by the dark blue deep | V |
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But that which keepeth us apart is not | W |
Distance nor depth of wave nor space of earth | X |
But the distraction of a various lot | W |
As various as the climates of our birth | X |
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A stranger loves the Lady of the land | Y |
Born far beyond the mountains but his blood | Z |
Is all meridian as if never fanned | Y |
By the black wind that chills the polar flood | Z |
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My blood is all meridian were it not | W |
I had not left my clime nor should I be | B |
In spite of tortures ne'er to be forgot | W |
A slave again of love at least of thee | B |
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'Tis vain to struggle let me perish young | A2 |
Live as I lived and love as I have loved | B2 |
To dust if I return from dust I sprung | A2 |
And then at least my heart can ne'er be moved | C2 |
George Gordon Byron
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