Vittoria Colonna Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK ALAM NONO FPFP QRQR STST AUCU| Once more once more Inarim | A |
| I see thy purple hills once more | B |
| I hear the billows of the bay | C |
| Wash the white pebbles on thy shore | B |
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| High o'er the sea surge and the sands | D |
| Like a great galleon wrecked and cast | E |
| Ashore by storms thy castle stands | D |
| A mouldering landmark of the Past | E |
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| Upon its terrace walk I see | F |
| A phantom gliding to and fro | G |
| It is Colonna it is she | F |
| Who lived and loved so long ago | G |
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| Pescara's beautiful young wife | H |
| The type of perfect womanhood | I |
| Whose life was love the life of life | H |
| That time and change and death withstood | I |
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| For death that breaks the marriage band | J |
| In others only closer pressed | K |
| The wedding ring upon her hand | J |
| And closer locked and barred her breast | K |
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| She knew the life long martyrdom | A |
| The weariness the endless pain | L |
| Of waiting for some one to come | A |
| Who nevermore would come again | M |
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| The shadows of the chestnut trees | N |
| The odor of the orange blooms | O |
| The song of birds and more than these | N |
| The silence of deserted rooms | O |
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| The respiration of the sea | F |
| The soft caresses of the air | P |
| All things in nature seemed to be | F |
| But ministers of her despair | P |
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| Till the o'erburdened heart so long | Q |
| Imprisoned in itself found vent | R |
| And voice in one impassioned song | Q |
| Of inconsolable lament | R |
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| Then as the sun though hidden from sight | S |
| Transmutes to gold the leaden mist | T |
| Her life was interfused with light | S |
| From realms that though unseen exist | T |
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| Inarim Inarim | A |
| Thy castle on the crags above | U |
| In dust shall crumble and decay | C |
| But not the memory of her love | U |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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