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