Amalfi. (birds Of Passage. Flight The Fourth) Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Sweet the memory is to me	A
Of a land beyond the sea	A
Where the waves and mountains meet	B
Where amid her mulberry trees	C
Sits Amalfi in the heat	B
Bathing ever her white feet	B
In the tideless summer seas	C
	-
In the middle of the town	D
From its fountains in the hills	E
Tumbling through the narrow gorge	F
The Canneto rushes down	D
Turns the great wheels of the mills	E
Lifts the hammers of the forge	F
	-
'T is a stairway not a street	B
That ascends the deep ravine	G
Where the torrent leaps between	G
Rocky walls that almost meet	B
Toiling up from stair to stair	H
Peasant girls their burdens bear	H
Sunburnt daughters of the soil	I
Stately figures tall and straight	J
What inexorable fate	J
Dooms them to this life of toil	I
	-
Lord of vineyards and of lands	K
Far above the convent stands	K
On its terraced walk aloof	L
Leans a monk with folded hands	K
Placid satisfied serene	G
Looking down upon the scene	G
Over wall and red tiled roof	L
Wondering unto what good end	M
All this toil and traffic tend	M
And why all men cannot be	A
Free from care and free from pain	N
And the sordid love of gain	N
And as indolent as he	A
	-
Where are now the freighted barks	O
From the marts of east and west	P
Where the knights in iron sarks	O
Journeying to the Holy Land	Q
Glove of steel upon the hand	Q
Cross of crimson on the breast	P
Where the pomp of camp and court	R
Where the pilgrims with their prayers	O
Where the merchants with their wares	O
And their gallant brigantines	O
Sailing safely into port	R
Chased by corsair Algerines	O
	-
Vanished like a fleet of cloud	S
Like a passing trumpet blast	T
Are those splendors of the past	T
And the commerce and the crowd	S
Fathoms deep beneath the seas	O
Lie the ancient wharves and quays	O
Swallowed by the engulfing waves	O
Silent streets and vacant halls	O
Ruined roofs and towers and walls	O
Hidden from all mortal eyes	O
Deep the sunken city lies	O
Even cities have their graves	O
	-
This is an enchanted land	Q
Round the headlands far away	U
Sweeps the blue Salernian bay	U
With its sickle of white sand	Q
Further still and furthermost	Q
On the dim discovered coast	Q
Paestum with its ruins lies	O
And its roses all in bloom	V
Seem to tinge the fatal skies	O
Of that lonely land of doom	V
	-
On his terrace high in air	H
Nothing doth the good monk care	H
For such worldly themes as these	O
From the garden just below	W
Little puffs of perfume blow	W
And a sound is in his ears	O
Of the murmur of the bees	O
In the shining chestnut trees	O
Nothing else he heeds or hears	O
All the landscape seems to swoon	X
In the happy afternoon	X
Slowly o'er his senses creep	Y
The encroaching waves of sleep	Y
And he sinks as sank the town	D
Unresisting fathoms down	D
Into caverns cool and deep	Y
	-
Walled about with drifts of snow	W
Hearing the fierce north wind blow	W
Seeing all the landscape white	Q
And the river cased in ice	O
Comes this memory of delight	Q
Comes this vision unto me	A
Of a long lost Paradise	O
In the land beyond the sea	A

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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