To Vittoria Colonna. (sonnet V.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDECDE| Lady how can it chance yet this we see | A |
| In long experience that will longer last | B |
| A living image carved from quarries vast | B |
| Than its own maker who dies presently | A |
| Cause yieldeth to effect if this so be | A |
| And even Nature is by Art at surpassed | B |
| This know I who to Art have given the past | B |
| But see that Time is breaking faith with me | A |
| Perhaps on both of us long life can I | C |
| Either in color or in stone bestow | D |
| By now portraying each in look and mien | E |
| So that a thousand years after we die | C |
| How fair thou wast and I how full of woe | D |
| And wherefore I so loved thee may be seen | E |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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