Italian Scenery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCDEF GHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVRWRX YZYA2B2 C2ZD2YE2B2YF2WG2H2I2 JJ2RFK2L2M2N2O2YRP2Q 2R R2ZS2T2U2PV2W2PPX2Y2 IZ2Y2RA3RY2ERY2LY2Y2 B3C3D3YY2XA | |
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Night rests in beauty on Mont Alto | B |
Beneath its shade the beauteous Arno sleeps | C |
In vallombrosa's bosom and dark trees | D |
Bend with a calm and quiet shadow down | E |
Upon the beauty of that silent river | F |
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Still in the west a melancholy smile | G |
Mantles the lips of day and twilight pale | H |
Moves like a spectre in the dusky sky | I |
While eve's sweet star on the fast fading year | J |
Smiles calmly Music steals at intervals | K |
Across the water with a tremulous swell | L |
From out the upland dingle of tall firs | M |
And a faint footfall sounds where dim and dark | N |
Hangs the gray willow from the river's brink | O |
O'ershadowing its current Slowly there | P |
The lover's gondola drops down the stream | Q |
Silent save when its dipping oar is heard | R |
Or in its eddy sighs the rippling wave | S |
Mouldering and moss grown through the lapse of years | T |
In motionless beauty stands the giant oak | U |
Whilst those that saw its green and flourishing youth | V |
Are gone and are forgotten Soft the fount | R |
Whose secret springs the star light pale discloses | W |
Gushes in hollow music and beyond | R |
The broader river sweeps its silent way | X |
Mingling a silver current with that sea | Y |
Whose waters have no tides coming nor going | Z |
On noiseless wing along that fair blue sea | Y |
The halcyon flits and where the wearied storm | A2 |
Left a loud moaning all is peace again | B2 |
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A calm is on the deep The winds that came | C2 |
O'er the dark sea surge with a tremulous breathing | Z |
And mourned on the dark cliff where weeds grew rank | D2 |
And to the autumnal death dirge the deep sea | Y |
Heaved its long billows with a cheerless song | E2 |
Have passed away to the cold earth again | B2 |
Like a wayfaring mourner Silently | Y |
Up from the calm sea's dim and distant verge | F2 |
Full and unveiled the moon's broad disk emerges | W |
On Tivoli and where the fairy hues | G2 |
Of autumn glow upon Abruzzi's woods | H2 |
The silver light is spreading Far above | I2 |
Encompassed with their thin cold atmosphere | J |
The Apennines uplift their snowy brows | J2 |
Glowing with colder beauty where unheard | R |
The eagle screams in the fathomless ether | F |
And stays his wearied wing Here let us pause | K2 |
The spirit of these solitudes the soul | L2 |
That dwells within these steep and difficult places | M2 |
Spearks a mysterious language to mine own | N2 |
And brings unutterable musings Earth | O2 |
Sleeps in the shades of nightfall and the sea | Y |
Spreads like a thin blue haze beneath my feet | R |
Whilst the gray columns and the mouldering tombs | P2 |
Of the Imperial City hidden deep | Q2 |
Beneath the mantle of their shadows rest | R |
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My spirit looks on earth A heavnly voice | R2 |
Comes silently 'Dreamer is earth thy dwelling | Z |
Lo Nursed within that fair and fruitful bosom | S2 |
Which has sustained thy being and within | T2 |
The colder breast of Ocean lie the germs | U2 |
Of thine own dissolution E'en the air | P |
That fans the clear blue sky and gives thee strength | V2 |
Up from the sullen lake of mouldering reeds | W2 |
And the wide waste of forest where the osier | P |
Thrives in the damp and motionless atmosphere | P |
Shall bring the dire and wasting pestilence | X2 |
And blight they cheek Dram thou of higher things | Y2 |
This world is not thy home ' And yet my eye | I |
Rests upon earth again How beautiful | Z2 |
Where wild Velino heaves its sullen aves | Y2 |
Down the high cliff of gray and shapeless granite | R |
Hung on the curling mist the moonlight bow | A3 |
Arches the perilous river A soft light | R |
Silvers the Albanian mountains and the haze | Y2 |
That rests upon their summits mellows down | E |
The austerer features of their beauty Faint | R |
And dim discovered glow the Sabine hills | Y2 |
And listening to the sea's monotonous shell | L |
High on the cliffs of Terracina stands | Y2 |
The castle of the royal Goth in ruins | Y2 |
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But night is in her wane day's early flush | B3 |
Glows like a hectic on her fading cheek | C3 |
Wasting its beauty And the opening dawn | D3 |
With cheerful luster lights the royal city | Y |
Where with its proud tiara of dark towers | Y2 |
It sleeps upon its own romantic bay | X |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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