To The Beloved Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDEFGHI JKKLLMNOPQQ RSGKKTUUVWW ANNNXYNNZSS A2SB2C2C2ZD2NZUU| Beauty beloved who hast my heart inspired | A |
| Seen from afar or with thy face concealed | B |
| Save when in visions of the night revealed | B |
| Or seen in daydreams bright | C |
| When all the fields are filled with light | C |
| And Nature's smile is sweet | D |
| Say hast thou blessed | E |
| Some golden age of innocence | F |
| And floatest now a shadow o'er the earth | G |
| Or hath Fate's envious doom | H |
| Reserved thee for some happier day to come | I |
| - | |
| To see thee e'er alive | J |
| No hope remains to me | K |
| Unless perchance when from this body free | K |
| My wandering spirit lone | L |
| O'er some new path to some new world hath flown | L |
| E'en here at first I at the dawn | M |
| Of this my day so dreary and forlorn | N |
| Sought thee to guide me on my weary way | O |
| But none on earth resembles thee E'en if | P |
| One were in looks and acts and words thy peer | Q |
| Though like thee she less lovely would appear | Q |
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| Amidst the deepest grief | R |
| That fate hath e'er to human lot assigned | S |
| Could one but love thee on this earth | G |
| Alive and such as my thought painteth thee | K |
| He would be happy in his misery | K |
| And I most clearly see how still | T |
| As in my earliest days | U |
| Thy love would make me cling to virtue's ways | U |
| Unto my grief heaven hath no comfort brought | V |
| And yet with thee this mortal life would seem | W |
| Like that in heaven of which we fondly dream | W |
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| Along the valleys where is heard | A |
| The song of the laborious husbandman | N |
| And where I sit and moan | N |
| O'er youth's illusions gone | N |
| Along the hills where I recall with tears | X |
| The vanished joys and hopes of earlier years | Y |
| At thought of thee my heart revives again | N |
| O could I still thy image dear retain | N |
| In this dark age and in this baleful air | Z |
| To loss of thee O let me be resigned | S |
| And in thy image still some comfort find | S |
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| If thou art one of those | A2 |
| Ideas eternal which the Eternal Mind | S |
| Refused in earthly form to clothe | B2 |
| Nor would subject unto the pain and strife | C2 |
| Of this our frail and dreary life | C2 |
| Or if thou hast a mansion fair | Z |
| Amid the boundless realms of space | D2 |
| That lighted is by a more genial sun | N |
| And breathest there a more benignant air | Z |
| From here where brief and wretched are our days | U |
| Receive thy humble lover's hymn of praise | U |
Giacomo Leopardi
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