The Evening Of The Holiday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP QROSQTUVWXQYZOOA2B2C 2D2E2F2G2NOH2QI2OHThe night is mild and clear and without wind | A |
And o'er the roofs and o'er the gardens round | B |
The moon shines soft and from afar reveals | C |
Each mountain peak serene O lady mine | D |
Hushed now is every path and few and dim | E |
The lamps that glimmer through the balconies | F |
Thou sleepest in thy quiet rooms how light | G |
And easy is thy sleep No care thy heart | H |
Consumes and little dost thou know or think | I |
How deep a wound thou in my heart hast made | J |
Thou sleepest I to yonder heaven turn | K |
That seems to greet me with a loving smile | L |
And to that Nature old omnipotent | M |
That doomed me still to suffer I to thee | N |
All hope deny she said e'en hope nor may | O |
Those eyes of thine e'er shine save through their tears | P |
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This was a holiday its pleasures o'er | Q |
Thou seek'st repose and happy in thy dreams | R |
Recallest those whom thou hast pleased to day | O |
And those who have pleased thee not I indeed | S |
I hoped it not unto thy thoughts occur | Q |
Meanwhile I ask how much of life remains | T |
To me and on the earth I cast myself | U |
And cry and groan How wretched are my days | V |
And still so young Hark on the road I hear | W |
Not far away the solitary song | X |
Of workman who returns at this late hour | Q |
In merry mood unto his humble home | Y |
And in my heart a cruel pang I feel | Z |
At thought how all things earthly pass away | O |
And leave no trace behind This festal day | O |
Hath fled a working day now follows it | A2 |
And all alike are swept away by Time | B2 |
Where is the glory of the antique nations now | C2 |
Where now the fame of our great ancestors | D2 |
The empire vast of Rome the clash of arms | E2 |
Now all is peace and silence all the world | F2 |
At rest their very names are heard no more | G2 |
E'en from my earliest years when we | N |
Expect so eagerly a holiday | O |
The moment it was past I sought my couch | H2 |
Wakeful and sad and at the midnight hour | Q |
When I the song heard of some passer by | I2 |
That slowly in the distance died away | O |
The same deep anguish felt I in my heart | H |
Giacomo Leopardi
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