Amalfi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBBC DEFDEF BGGBHHIJJI KKLKGGLMMANNA OPOQQPROOORO STTSOOOOOOOO QUUQQQOVOV HHOWWOOOOXXYYDDY WWQOQAOASweet 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 |
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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 |
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'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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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