Cadenabbia - Lake Of Como Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD ECEC CCCC FFFF GHGH IJKJ FCFC LELE BMBM DNOP| No sound of wheels or hoof beat breaks | A |
| The silence of the summer day | B |
| As by the loveliest of all lakes | A |
| I while the idle hours away | B |
| - | |
| I pace the leafy colonnade | C |
| Where level branches of the plane | D |
| Above me weave a roof of shade | C |
| Impervious to the sun and rain | D |
| - | |
| At times a sudden rush of air | E |
| Flutters the lazy leaves o'erhead | C |
| And gleams of sunshine toss and flare | E |
| Like torches down the path I tread | C |
| - | |
| By Somariva's garden gate | C |
| I make the marble stairs my seat | C |
| And hear the water as I wait | C |
| Lapping the steps beneath my feet | C |
| - | |
| The undulation sinks and swells | F |
| Along the stony parapets | F |
| And far away the floating bells | F |
| Tinkle upon the fisher's nets | F |
| - | |
| Silent and slow by tower and town | G |
| The freighted barges come and go | H |
| Their pendent shadows gliding down | G |
| By town and tower submerged below | H |
| - | |
| The hills sweep upward from the shore | I |
| With villas scattered one by one | J |
| Upon their wooded spurs and lower | K |
| Bellaggio blazing in the sun | J |
| - | |
| And dimly seen a tangled mass | F |
| Of walls and woods of light and shade | C |
| Stands beckoning up the Stelvio Pass | F |
| Varenna with its white cascade | C |
| - | |
| I ask myself Is this a dream | L |
| Will it all vanish into air | E |
| Is there a land of such supreme | L |
| And perfect beauty anywhere | E |
| - | |
| Sweet vision Do not fade away | B |
| Linger until my heart shall take | M |
| Into itself the summer day | B |
| And all the beauty of the lake | M |
| - | |
| Linger until upon my brain | D |
| Is stamped an image of the scene | N |
| Then fade into the air again | O |
| And be as if thou hadst not been | P |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about Cadenabbia - Lake Of Como poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Best Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow