On Como Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCBDED EFBFBBGBGBHBHBBBB| A rainless darkness drew o'er the lake | A |
| As we lay in our boat with oars unshipped | B |
| It seemed neither cloud nor water awake | A |
| And forth of the low black curtain slipped | B |
| Thunderless lightning Scoff no more | C |
| At angels imagined in downward flight | B |
| For the daughters of earth as fabled of yore | C |
| Here was beauty might well invite | B |
| Dark heavens to gleam with the fire of a sun | D |
| Resurgent here the exchanged embrace | E |
| Worthy of heaven and earth made one | D |
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| And witness it ye of the privileged space | E |
| Said the flash and the mountains as from an abyss | F |
| For quivering seconds leaped up to attest | B |
| That given received renewed was the kiss | F |
| The lips to lips and the breast to breast | B |
| All in a glory of ecstasy swift | B |
| As an eagle at prey and pure as the prayer | G |
| Of an infant bidden joined hands uplift | B |
| To be guarded through darkness by spirits of air | G |
| Ere setting the sails of sleep till day | B |
| Slowly the low cloud swung and far | H |
| It panted along its mirrored way | B |
| Above loose threads one sanctioning star | H |
| The wonder of what had been witnessed sealed | B |
| And with me still as in crystal glassed | B |
| Are the depths alight the heavens revealed | B |
| Where on to the Alps the muteness passed | B |
George Meredith
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