Flower-de-luce: Giotto's Tower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBBBBCDCCDE| How many lives made beautiful and sweet | A |
| By self devotion and by self restraint | B |
| Whose pleasure is to run without complaint | B |
| On unknown errands of the Paraclete | B |
| Wanting the reverence of unshodden feet | B |
| Fail of the nimbus which the artists paint | B |
| Around the shining forehead of the saint | B |
| And are in their completeness incomplete | B |
| In the old Tuscan town stands Giotto's tower | C |
| The lily of Florence blossoming in stone | D |
| A vision a delight and a desire | C |
| The builder's perfect and centennial flower | C |
| That in the night of ages bloomed alone | D |
| But wanting still the glory of the spire | E |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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