Italian Scenery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AA BCDEF GHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVRWRX YZYA2B2 C2ZD2YE2B2YF2WG2H2I2 JJ2RFK2L2M2N2O2YRP2Q 2R R2ZS2T2U2PV2W2PPX2Y2 IZ2Y2RA3RY2ERY2LY2Y2 B3C3D3YY2X

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Night rests in beauty on Mont AltoB
Beneath its shade the beauteous Arno sleepsC
In vallombrosa's bosom and dark treesD
Bend with a calm and quiet shadow downE
Upon the beauty of that silent riverF
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Still in the west a melancholy smileG
Mantles the lips of day and twilight paleH
Moves like a spectre in the dusky skyI
While eve's sweet star on the fast fading yearJ
Smiles calmly Music steals at intervalsK
Across the water with a tremulous swellL
From out the upland dingle of tall firsM
And a faint footfall sounds where dim and darkN
Hangs the gray willow from the river's brinkO
O'ershadowing its current Slowly thereP
The lover's gondola drops down the streamQ
Silent save when its dipping oar is heardR
Or in its eddy sighs the rippling waveS
Mouldering and moss grown through the lapse of yearsT
In motionless beauty stands the giant oakU
Whilst those that saw its green and flourishing youthV
Are gone and are forgotten Soft the fountR
Whose secret springs the star light pale disclosesW
Gushes in hollow music and beyondR
The broader river sweeps its silent wayX
Mingling a silver current with that seaY
Whose waters have no tides coming nor goingZ
On noiseless wing along that fair blue seaY
The halcyon flits and where the wearied stormA2
Left a loud moaning all is peace againB2
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A calm is on the deep The winds that cameC2
O'er the dark sea surge with a tremulous breathingZ
And mourned on the dark cliff where weeds grew rankD2
And to the autumnal death dirge the deep seaY
Heaved its long billows with a cheerless songE2
Have passed away to the cold earth againB2
Like a wayfaring mourner SilentlyY
Up from the calm sea's dim and distant vergeF2
Full and unveiled the moon's broad disk emergesW
On Tivoli and where the fairy huesG2
Of autumn glow upon Abruzzi's woodsH2
The silver light is spreading Far aboveI2
Encompassed with their thin cold atmosphereJ
The Apennines uplift their snowy browsJ2
Glowing with colder beauty where unheardR
The eagle screams in the fathomless etherF
And stays his wearied wing Here let us pauseK2
The spirit of these solitudes the soulL2
That dwells within these steep and difficult placesM2
Spearks a mysterious language to mine ownN2
And brings unutterable musings EarthO2
Sleeps in the shades of nightfall and the seaY
Spreads like a thin blue haze beneath my feetR
Whilst the gray columns and the mouldering tombsP2
Of the Imperial City hidden deepQ2
Beneath the mantle of their shadows restR
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My spirit looks on earth A heavnly voiceR2
Comes silently 'Dreamer is earth thy dwellingZ
Lo Nursed within that fair and fruitful bosomS2
Which has sustained thy being and withinT2
The colder breast of Ocean lie the germsU2
Of thine own dissolution E'en the airP
That fans the clear blue sky and gives thee strengthV2
Up from the sullen lake of mouldering reedsW2
And the wide waste of forest where the osierP
Thrives in the damp and motionless atmosphereP
Shall bring the dire and wasting pestilenceX2
And blight they cheek Dram thou of higher thingsY2
This world is not thy home ' And yet my eyeI
Rests upon earth again How beautifulZ2
Where wild Velino heaves its sullen avesY2
Down the high cliff of gray and shapeless graniteR
Hung on the curling mist the moonlight bowA3
Arches the perilous river A soft lightR
Silvers the Albanian mountains and the hazeY2
That rests upon their summits mellows downE
The austerer features of their beauty FaintR
And dim discovered glow the Sabine hillsY2
And listening to the sea's monotonous shellL
High on the cliffs of Terracina standsY2
The castle of the royal Goth in ruinsY2
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But night is in her wane day's early flushB3
Glows like a hectic on her fading cheekC3
Wasting its beauty And the opening dawnD3
With cheerful luster lights the royal cityY
Where with its proud tiara of dark towersY2
It sleeps upon its own romantic bayX

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



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