To Sylvia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDC EFFGGHII JKLJMMNMOOPMQR SSTUTMMVMWV XYNMZA2NA2B2 CC2D2NIE2IF2G2CCH2NI 2M| O Sylvia dost thou remember still | A |
| That period of thy mortal life | B |
| When beauty so bewildering | C |
| Shone in thy laughing glancing eyes | D |
| As thou so merry yet so wise | D |
| Youth's threshold then wast entering | C |
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| How did the quiet rooms | E |
| And all the paths around | F |
| With thy perpetual song resound | F |
| As thou didst sit on woman's work intent | G |
| Abundantly content | G |
| With the vague future floating on thy mind | H |
| Thy custom thus to spend the day | I |
| In that sweet time of youth and May | I |
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| How could I then at times | J |
| In those fair days of youth | K |
| The only happy days I ever knew | L |
| My hard tasks dropping or my careless rhymes | J |
| My station take on father's balcony | M |
| And listen to thy voice's melody | M |
| And watch thy hands as they would deftly fly | N |
| O'er thy embroidery | M |
| I gazed upon the heaven serene | O |
| The sun lit paths the orchards green | O |
| The distant mountain here | P |
| And there the far off sea | M |
| Ah mortal tongue cannot express | Q |
| What then I felt of happiness | R |
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| What gentle thoughts what hopes divine | S |
| What loving hearts O Sylvia mine | S |
| In what bright colors then portrayed | T |
| Were human life and fate | U |
| Oh when I think of such fond hopes betrayed | T |
| A feeling seizes me | M |
| Of bitterness and misery | M |
| And tenfold is my grief renewed | V |
| O Nature why this treachery | M |
| Why thus with broken promises | W |
| Thy children's hearts delude | V |
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| Thou ere the grass was touched with winter's frost | X |
| By fell disease attacked and overcome | Y |
| O tender plant didst die | N |
| The flower of thy days thou ne'er didst see | M |
| Nor did thy soft heart move | Z |
| Now of thy raven locks the tender praise | A2 |
| Now of thy eyes so loving and so shy | N |
| Nor with thee on the holidays | A2 |
| Did thy companions talk of love | B2 |
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| So perished too erelong | C |
| My own sweet hope | C2 |
| So too unto my years | D2 |
| Did Fate their youth deny | N |
| Alas alas the day | I |
| Lamented hope companion dear | E2 |
| How hast thou passed away | I |
| Is this that world These the delights | F2 |
| The love the labors the events | G2 |
| Of which we once so fondly spoke | C |
| And must all mortals wear this weary yoke | C |
| Ah when the truth appeared | H2 |
| It better seemed to die | N |
| Cold death the barren tomb didst thou prefer | I2 |
| To harsh reality | M |
Giacomo Leopardi
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