Venice. A Fragment.[577] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGHIIJJKKLM NONOPPQQPPRRSTUT C| 'Tis midnight but it is not dark | A |
| Within thy spacious place St Mark | A |
| The Lights within the Lamps without | B |
| Shine above the revel rout | B |
| The brazen Steeds are glittering o'er | C |
| The holy building's massy door | D |
| Glittering with their collars of gold | E |
| The goodly work of the days of old | E |
| And the wing d Lion stern and solemn | F |
| Frowns from the height of his hoary column | F |
| Facing the palace in which doth lodge | G |
| The ocean city's dreaded Doge | H |
| The palace is proud but near it lies | I |
| Divided by the Bridge of Sighs | I |
| The dreary dwelling where the State | J |
| Enchains the captives of their hate | J |
| These they perish or they pine | K |
| But which their doom may none divine | K |
| Many have passed that Arch of pain | L |
| But none retraced their steps again | M |
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| It is a princely colonnade | N |
| And wrought around a princely place | O |
| When that vast edifice displayed | N |
| Looks with its venerable face | O |
| Over the far and subject sea | P |
| Which makes the fearless isles so free | P |
| And 'tis a strange and noble pile | Q |
| Pillared into many an aisle | Q |
| Every pillar fair to see | P |
| Marble jasper and porphyry | P |
| The Church of St Mark which stands hard by | R |
| With fretted pinnacles on high | R |
| And Cupola and minaret | S |
| More like the mosque of orient lands | T |
| Than the fanes wherein we pray | U |
| And Mary's bless d likeness stands | T |
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| Venice December | C |
George Gordon Byron
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