On An Old Sepulchral Bas-relief Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCCDEFCG HIJJKLMNOM PQRSTTRUA VVWXYWZA2B2C2D2E2F2G 2KH2H2 I2J2K2H2L2M2L2UAN2N2 O2FP2Q2R2S2T2U2AAXV2 XW2RKX2X2Y2Y2 AZ2H2A3B3C3A3AD3ANNY 2Y2E3GY2E3F3G3F3Z2Z2 H3Y2H3R2I3J3AAJ3H2H2

Where Is Seen A Young Maiden Dead In The Act Of Departing Taking Leave Of Her FamilyA
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Where goest thou Who callsB
Thee from my dear ones far awayC
Most lovely maiden sayC
Alone a wanderer dost thou leaveD
Thy father's roof so soonE
Wilt thou unto its threshold e'er returnF
Wilt thou make glad one dayC
Those who now round thee weeping mournG
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Fearless thine eye and spirited thy actH
And yet thou too art sadI
If pleasant or unpleasant be the roadJ
If gay or gloomy be the new abodeJ
To which thou journeyest indeedK
In that grave face how difficult to readL
Ah hard to me the problem still hath seemedM
Not hath the world perhaps yet understoodN
If thou beloved or hated by the godsO
If happy or unhappy shouldst be deemedM
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Death calls thee in thy morn of lifeP
Its latest breath Unto the nestQ
Thou leavest thou wilt ne'er return wilt ne'erR
The faces of thy kindred more beholdS
And under groundT
The place to which thou goest will be foundT
And for all time will be thy sojourn thereR
Happy perhaps thou art but he must sighU
Who thoughtful contemplates thy destinyA
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Ne'er to have seen the light e'en at the timeV
I think but born e'en at the timeV
When regal beauty all her charms displaysW
Alike in form and faceX
And at her feet the admiring worldY
Its distant homage paysW
When every hope is in its flowerZ
Long long ere dreary winter flashA2
His baleful gleams against the joyous browB2
Like vapor gathered in the summer cloudC2
That melting in the evening sky is seenD2
To disappear as if one ne'er had beenE2
And to exchange the brilliant days to comeF2
For the dark silence of the tombG2
The intellect indeedK
May call this happiness but stillH2
It may the stoutest breasts with pity fillH2
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Thou mother dreaded and deploredI2
From birth by all the world that livesJ2
Nature ungracious miracleK2
That bringest forth and nourishest to killH2
If death untimely be an evil thingL2
Why on these innocent headsM2
Wilt thou that evil bringL2
If good why whyU
Beyond all other miseryA
To him who goes to him who must remainN2
Hast thou such parting crowned with hopeless painN2
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Wretched where'er we lookO2
Whichever way we turnF
Thy suffering children areP2
Thee it hath pleased that youthful hopeQ2
Should ever be by life beguiledR2
The current of our years with woes be filledS2
And death against all ills the only shieldT2
And this inevitable sealU2
And this immutable decreeA
Hast thou assigned to human destinyA
Why after such a painful raceX
Should not the goal at leastV2
Present to us a cheerful faceX
Why that which we in constant viewW2
Must while we live forever bearR
Sole comfort in our hour of needK
Thus dress in weeds of woeX2
And gird with shadows soX2
And make the friendly port to us appearY2
More frightful than the tempest drearY2
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If death indeed be a calamityA
Which thou intendest for us allZ2
Whom thou against our knowledge and our willH2
Hast forced to draw this mortal breathA3
Then surely he who diesB3
A lot more enviable hathC3
Then he who feels his loved one's deathA3
But if the truth it beA
As I most firmly thinkD3
That life is the calamityA
And death the boon alas who ever couldN
What yet he shouldN
Desire the dying day of those so dearY2
That he may linger hereY2
Of his best self deprivedE3
May see across his threshold borneG
The form beloved of herY2
With whom so many years he livedE3
And say to her farewellF3
Without the hope of meeting here againG3
And then alone on earth to dwellF3
And looking round the hours and places allZ2
Of lost companionship recallZ2
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Ah Nature how how couldst thou have the heartH3
From the friend's arms the friend to tearY2
The brother from the brother partH3
The father from the childR2
The lover from his loveI3
And killing one the other keep aliveJ3
What dire necessityA
Compels such miseryA
That lover should the loved one e'er surviveJ3
But Nature in her cruel dealings stillH2
Pays little heed unto our good or illH2

Giacomo Leopardi



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