Stanzas To The Po Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCBD EFEF GHGI JKLM NOPO BQBG RSRT UVUV WXWX YZYZ WBWB A2B2A2C2| River 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 |
| The 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 |
| Born 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 Lord Byron
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