Evening On Lake Como Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJKLL MNMNLL OLOLPP QRQROO LSLSTT| Beside my garden's ivied wall | A |
| Enwreathed in vines of gold and green | B |
| I stand as evening shadows fall | A |
| And marvel at the matchless scene | B |
| While wavelets make with rhythmic beat | C |
| Perpetual music at my feet | C |
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| The year grows old yet on the breeze | D |
| Still floats the perfume of the rose | E |
| Still gleams the gold of orange trees | D |
| Regardless of the Alpine snows | E |
| For while above Frost reigns as king | F |
| Below prevails the warmth of Spring | F |
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| In Tremezzina's sheltered bay | G |
| The wintry storms forget to rave | H |
| Without the white caps and the spray | G |
| Within a shore with scarce a wave | H |
| A favored spot where tempests cease | I |
| And Heaven whispers Here is Peace | I |
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| Across the water's purple bloom | J |
| Bellagio bathed in sunset light | K |
| Surmounts the twilight's gathering gloom | J |
| With glistening walls of pink and white | K |
| The wraith of some celestial strand | L |
| The fringe of an enchanted land | L |
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| My sweet voiced fountain softly sings | M |
| Its good night lyric to the lake | N |
| A skiff glides by on slender wings | M |
| With scarce a ripple in its wake | N |
| And pleasure boats their canvas furled | L |
| Float idly in an ideal world | L |
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| The swan like steamers come and go | O |
| The ruffled water finds its rest | L |
| The snow peaks catch a ruddy glow | O |
| From crimsoned cloudlets in the west | L |
| And trembling on the tranquil air | P |
| Steals forth the vesper call to prayer | P |
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| Oh peerless strand I yearn no more | Q |
| To mingle with the maddened throng | R |
| Enough for me this wave kissed shore | Q |
| The vesper bell the fountain's song | R |
| The sunlit sail the Alpine glow | O |
| And storied towers of long ago | O |
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| Between me and the world's unrest | L |
| The lake's broad leagues of water lie | S |
| Above my wave protected nest | L |
| Serenely bends a cloudless sky | S |
| And homeward from life's stormy sea | T |
| The dreams of youth come back to me | T |
John L. Stoddard
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