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The Venetian Girl's Evening Song. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Unmoor the skiff unmoor the skiff	A
The night wind's sigh is on the air	B
And o'er the highest Alpine cliff	A
The pale moon rises broad and clear	C
The murmuring waves are tranquil now	D
And on their breast each twinkling star	E
With which Night gems her dusky brow	D
Flings its mild radiance from afar	E
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Put off upon the deep blue sea	F
And leave the banquet and the ball	G
For solitude when shared with thee	F
Is dearer than the carnival	H
And in my heart are thoughts of love	I
Such thoughts as lips should only breathe	J
When the bright stars keep watch above	I
And the calm waters sleep beneath	K
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The tale I have for thee perchance	L
May to thine eye anew impart	M
The long lost gladness of its glance	L
And soothe the sorrows of thy heart	M
Come I will sing for thee again	N
The songs which once our mothers sung	O
Ere tyranny its galling chain	P
On them and those they loved had hung	O
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Thou'rt sad thou say'st that in the halls	Q
Which echoed once our father's tread	R
The stranger's idle footstep falls	Q
With sound that might awake the dead	R
The mighty dead whose dust around	S
An atmosphere of reverence sheds	T
If aught of earthly voice or sound	S
Might reach them in their marble beds	T
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That she to whom the deep gave birth	U
Fair Venice to whose queenly stores	V
The wealth and beauty of the earth	U
Were wafted from an hundred shores	V
Now on her wave girt site forlorn	W
Sits shrouded in affliction's night	X
The object of the tyrant's scorn	W
Sad monument of fallen might	X
	-
Well tho' in her deserted halls	Q
The fire on Freedom's shrine is dead	R
Tho' o'er her darkened crumbling walls	Q
Stern Desolation's pall is spread	R
Is not the second better part	M
To that which rends the despot's chain	P
To wear it with a dauntless heart	M
To feel yet shrink not from its pain	P
	-
Then let the creeping ivy twine	Y
Its wreaths about each ruined arch	Z
Till Time shall crush them in the brine	Y
Beneath its all triumphant march	Z
Then let the swelling waters close	A2
Above the sea child's sinking frame	B2
And hide for ever from her foes	C2
Each trace and vestige of her shame	B2
	-
Shall we at last less calmly sleep	D2
When in the narrow death house pent	E2
Because the bosom of the deep	D2
Shall be our only monument	F2
No by the waste of waters bid	G2
Our tombs as well shall keep their trust	H2
As tho' a marble pyramid	G2
Were piled above our mangled dust	H2
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Written in the National Gallery at the city of Washington on looking at a Mummy supposed to have belonged to a race extinct before the occupation of the Western Continent by the people in whose possession the Europeans found it	I2
	-
Sole and mysterious relic of a race	J2
That long has ceased to be whose very name	B2
Time ever bearing on with steady pace	J2
Has swept away from earth leaving thy frame	B2
Darkened by thirty centuries to claim	B2
Among the records of the things that were	K2
Its place Tradition has forgot thee Fame	B2
If ever fame was thine has ceased to bear	B
Her record of thee say what dost thou here	L2
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Three thousand years ago a mother's arms	M2
Were wrapped about that dark and ghastly form	N2
And all the loveliness of childhood's charms	M2
Glowed on that cheek with life then flushed and warm	N2
Say what preserved thee from the hungry worm	O2
That haunts with gnawing tooth the gloomy bed	R
Spread for the lifeless Tell what could disarm	P2
Decay of half its power and while it fed	R
On empires races make it spare the dead	R
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How strange to contemplate the wondrous story	F
When those deep sunken eyes first saw the light	X
Lost Babylon was in her midday glory	F
Upon her pride and power had fall'n no blight	X
And Tyre the ancient mariner's delight	X
Whose merchantmen were princes and whose name	B2
Was theme of praise to all has left her site	X
To utter barren nakedness and shame	B2
Yet thou amid all change art still the same	B2
	-
And she who by the yellow Tiber's side	Q2
Sits wrapped in her dark veil of widowhood	Q2
With scarce a glimmer of her ancient pride	Q2
To cheer the gloom of that deep solitude	Q2
Which o'er the seat of vanquished pow'r doth brood	Q2
Since thou wast born has seen her glories rise	R2
Burn and expire quenched by the streams of blood	Q2
Which her slaves drew from her own veins the price	S2
Of usurpation proud Ambition's sacrifice	S2
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And darker in her fate and sadder still	T2
The sacred city of the minstrel king	U2
That proudly sat on Zion's holy hill	T2
The wonder of the world Destruction's wing	U2
Hath from her swept each fair and goodly thing	U2
Her palaces and temples where are they	V2
Her walls and marble tow'rs lie mouldering	U2
Her glory to the spoiler's hand a prey	V2
And yet time spares a portion of thy clay	V2
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And thou art here amid a stranger race	J2
To whom these shores four centuries ago	U2
Tho' now proud Freedom's boasted dwelling place	J2
Were all unknown the wide streams that now flow	U2
Where Cultivation's hand has steered her plough	D
Had then but seen the forest huntsman guide	Q2
His light canoe across the waves which now	D
Reflect the snowy sails that waft in pride	Q2
The stately ship along their rippling tide	Q2
	-
Thou art the silent messenger of ages	W2
Sent back to tread with Time his constant way	V2
To shame the wisdom of conceited sages	X2
Whose lore is but a thing of yesterday	V2
What would their best their brightest visions weigh	V2
Beside the fearful truths thou couldst reveal	Y2
The secrets of eternity now lay	V2
Unveiled before thee and for we or weal	V2
Thy doom is fixed beyond ev'n heaven's repeal	V2
	-
I will not ask thee of the mysteries	Z2
That lie beyond Death's shadowy vale but thou	D
Mayst tell us of the fate the Destinies	Z2
Wove for thine earthly sojourn Was thy brow	D
Graced with the poet's hero's garland How	D
Dealt Fortune with thee Did she curse or bless	A3
Thee with her frown or smile Speak thou art now	D
Among the living they around thee press	A3
Still silent Then thy lot we can but guess	A3
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Perhaps thou wast a monarch and hast worn	W
The sceptre of some real El Dorado	U2
Perhaps a warrior and those arms have borne	W
The foremost shield and dealt the deadliest blow	U2
That drew the life blood of a warring foe	U2
Perhaps thou wor'st the courtier's gilded thrall	V2
Some glittering court's gay proud papilio	V2
Perchance a clown the jester of some hall	V2
The slave of one man and the fool of all	V2
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Oh life and pride and honour come and see	F
To what a depth your visions tumble down	B3
Behold your wearer who shall say if he	F
Were monarch warrior parasite or clown	B3
And ye who talk of glory and renown	B3
And call them bright and deathless and who break	U2
Each dearer tie to grasp fame's gilded crown	B3
Come hear instruction from this shadow speak	U2
And learn how valueless the prize ye seek	U2
	-
See where ambition's loftiest flight doth tend	Q2
Behold the doom perhaps of blood bought fame	B2
And know that all which earth can give must end	Q2
In dust and ashes and an empty name	B2
Ye passions which defy our pow'r to tame	B2
Or curb your headlong tides behold your home	C3
Love see the breast where thou didst light thy flame	B2
Immortal spirit see thy shattered dome	C3
When shall its hour of renovation come	D3
	-
Shall life possess and beauty deck again	N
That withered form and foul and dusky cheek	U2
Will Death resign his dull and frozen reign	P
And the immortal soul return to seek	U2
Her long deserted dwelling and to break	U2
The bondage which has held in icy chains	E3
All that was mortal of thee will she make	U2
Her home in thee and shall these poor remains	E3
Share with her heaven's pleasures or hell's pains	E3
	-
Wonder of wonders who could look on thee	F
And afterward survey with curious eye	F3
The mouldering shrines where dupes have bent the knee	F
Where superstition by hypocrisy	F
Nurtured and fed with tales of mystery	F
Has oft with timid footstep trembling trod	Q2
All these are worse than nothing come and see	F
Where once a deathless soul held its abode	Q2
The wrecked and ruined palace of a God	Q2
	-
Farewell Not idly has this hour been spent	Q2
Thy silent teachings I may not forget	Q2
More deeply strangely truly eloquent	Q2
Than all the babbled words which ever yet	Q2
Have fall'n from living lips they shall be set	Q2
With the bright gems which Wisdom loves to keep	D2
And when my spirit against fate would fret	Q2
My eyes shall turn to thee and cease to weep	D2
Till I too sleep death's deep and dreamless sleep	D2