To Italy. (from Filicaja) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDEDCE| Italy Italy thou who'rt doomed to wear | A |
| The fatal gift of beauty and possess | B |
| The dower funest of infinite wretchedness | B |
| Written upon thy forehead by despair | A |
| Ah would that thou wert stronger or less fair | A |
| That they might fear thee more or love thee less | B |
| Who in the splendour of thy loveliness | B |
| Seem wasting yet to mortal combat dare | A |
| Then from the Alps I should not see descending | C |
| Such torrents of armed men nor Gallic horde | D |
| Drinking the wave of Po distained with gore | E |
| Nor should I see thee girded with a sword | D |
| Not thine and with the stranger's arm contending | C |
| Victor or vanquished slave for evermore | E |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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