Naples - 1860 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDD EFE GGG HHH IJJ AAA KKL MMN OOO PPP KKL| I GIVE thee joy I know to thee | A |
| The dearest spot on earth must be | A |
| Where sleeps thy loved one by the summer sea | A |
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| Where near her sweetest poet s tomb | B |
| The land of Virgil gave thee room | B |
| To lay thy flower with her perpetual bloom | B |
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| I know that when the sky shut down | C |
| Behind thee on the gleaming town | C |
| On Baiae s baths and Posilippo s crown | C |
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| And through thy tears the mocking day | D |
| Burned Ischia s mountain lines away | D |
| And Capri melted in its sunny bay | D |
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| Through thy great farewell sorrow shot | E |
| The sharp pang of a bitter thought | F |
| That slaves must tread around that holy spot | E |
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| Thou knewest not the land was blest | G |
| In giving thy beloved rest | G |
| Holding the fond hope closer to her breast | G |
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| That every sweet and saintly grave | H |
| Was freedom s prophecy and gave | H |
| The pledge of Heaven to sanctify and save | H |
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| That pledge is answered To thy ear | I |
| The unchained city sends its cheer | J |
| And tuned to joy the muffled bells of fear | J |
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| Ring Victor in The land sits free | A |
| And happy by the summer sea | A |
| And Bourbon Naples now is Italy | A |
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| She smiles above her broken chain | K |
| The languid smile that follows pain | K |
| Stretching her cramped limbs to the sun again | L |
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| Oh joy for all who hear her call | M |
| From gray Camaldoli s convent wall | M |
| And Elmo s towers to freedom s carnival | N |
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| A new life breathes among her vines | O |
| And olives like the breath of pines | O |
| Blown downward from the breezy Apennines | O |
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| Lean O my friend to meet that breath | P |
| Rejoice as one who witnesseth | P |
| Beauty from ashes rise and life from death | P |
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| Thy sorrow shall no more be pain | K |
| Its tears shall fall in sunlit rain | K |
| Writing the grave with flowers Arisen again | L |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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