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 Family | A |
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| Where goest thou Who calls | B |
| Thee from my dear ones far away | C |
| Most lovely maiden say | C |
| Alone a wanderer dost thou leave | D |
| Thy father's roof so soon | E |
| Wilt thou unto its threshold e'er return | F |
| Wilt thou make glad one day | C |
| Those who now round thee weeping mourn | G |
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| Fearless thine eye and spirited thy act | H |
| And yet thou too art sad | I |
| If pleasant or unpleasant be the road | J |
| If gay or gloomy be the new abode | J |
| To which thou journeyest indeed | K |
| In that grave face how difficult to read | L |
| Ah hard to me the problem still hath seemed | M |
| Not hath the world perhaps yet understood | N |
| If thou beloved or hated by the gods | O |
| If happy or unhappy shouldst be deemed | M |
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| Death calls thee in thy morn of life | P |
| Its latest breath Unto the nest | Q |
| Thou leavest thou wilt ne'er return wilt ne'er | R |
| The faces of thy kindred more behold | S |
| And under ground | T |
| The place to which thou goest will be found | T |
| And for all time will be thy sojourn there | R |
| Happy perhaps thou art but he must sigh | U |
| Who thoughtful contemplates thy destiny | A |
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| Ne'er to have seen the light e'en at the time | V |
| I think but born e'en at the time | V |
| When regal beauty all her charms displays | W |
| Alike in form and face | X |
| And at her feet the admiring world | Y |
| Its distant homage pays | W |
| When every hope is in its flower | Z |
| Long long ere dreary winter flash | A2 |
| His baleful gleams against the joyous brow | B2 |
| Like vapor gathered in the summer cloud | C2 |
| That melting in the evening sky is seen | D2 |
| To disappear as if one ne'er had been | E2 |
| And to exchange the brilliant days to come | F2 |
| For the dark silence of the tomb | G2 |
| The intellect indeed | K |
| May call this happiness but still | H2 |
| It may the stoutest breasts with pity fill | H2 |
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| Thou mother dreaded and deplored | I2 |
| From birth by all the world that lives | J2 |
| Nature ungracious miracle | K2 |
| That bringest forth and nourishest to kill | H2 |
| If death untimely be an evil thing | L2 |
| Why on these innocent heads | M2 |
| Wilt thou that evil bring | L2 |
| If good why why | U |
| Beyond all other misery | A |
| To him who goes to him who must remain | N2 |
| Hast thou such parting crowned with hopeless pain | N2 |
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| Wretched where'er we look | O2 |
| Whichever way we turn | F |
| Thy suffering children are | P2 |
| Thee it hath pleased that youthful hope | Q2 |
| Should ever be by life beguiled | R2 |
| The current of our years with woes be filled | S2 |
| And death against all ills the only shield | T2 |
| And this inevitable seal | U2 |
| And this immutable decree | A |
| Hast thou assigned to human destiny | A |
| Why after such a painful race | X |
| Should not the goal at least | V2 |
| Present to us a cheerful face | X |
| Why that which we in constant view | W2 |
| Must while we live forever bear | R |
| Sole comfort in our hour of need | K |
| Thus dress in weeds of woe | X2 |
| And gird with shadows so | X2 |
| And make the friendly port to us appear | Y2 |
| More frightful than the tempest drear | Y2 |
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| If death indeed be a calamity | A |
| Which thou intendest for us all | Z2 |
| Whom thou against our knowledge and our will | H2 |
| Hast forced to draw this mortal breath | A3 |
| Then surely he who dies | B3 |
| A lot more enviable hath | C3 |
| Then he who feels his loved one's death | A3 |
| But if the truth it be | A |
| As I most firmly think | D3 |
| That life is the calamity | A |
| And death the boon alas who ever could | N |
| What yet he should | N |
| Desire the dying day of those so dear | Y2 |
| That he may linger here | Y2 |
| Of his best self deprived | E3 |
| May see across his threshold borne | G |
| The form beloved of her | Y2 |
| With whom so many years he lived | E3 |
| And say to her farewell | F3 |
| Without the hope of meeting here again | G3 |
| And then alone on earth to dwell | F3 |
| And looking round the hours and places all | Z2 |
| Of lost companionship recall | Z2 |
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| Ah Nature how how couldst thou have the heart | H3 |
| From the friend's arms the friend to tear | Y2 |
| The brother from the brother part | H3 |
| The father from the child | R2 |
| The lover from his love | I3 |
| And killing one the other keep alive | J3 |
| What dire necessity | A |
| Compels such misery | A |
| That lover should the loved one e'er survive | J3 |
| But Nature in her cruel dealings still | H2 |
| Pays little heed unto our good or ill | H2 |
Giacomo Leopardi
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