Opportunity.from The Italian Of Machiavelli Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDAABBAABBEEBB CC| Who art thou glorious Form flashing by me | A |
| So beautiful so Godlike wilt thou fly me | A |
| Why o'er thy face and bosom fall thy tresses streaming | B |
| And why the airy pinions on thy white feet gleaming | B |
| My name is Opportunity Pause or rest I never | C |
| Mortals rarely know me till I'm gone for ever | C |
| To seize me passing on to few is granted | D |
| Therefore one foot upon a wheel is planted | D |
| Therefore the light wings bound on them to make me | A |
| So quick in flight that none shall overtake me | A |
| Down fall my tresses face and bosom veiling | B |
| That none may know me 'till to know be unavailing | B |
| Then mockingly I fling aside the veil and please me | A |
| With their vain hope and vainer haste to seize me | A |
| And who is this dark form that follows thee with weeping | B |
| Ever as a shadow on thy bright track keeping | B |
| Her name's Repentance When I fleet quickly by them | E |
| She stoppeth weeping vainly weeping nigh them | E |
| But thou poor mortal precious moments wasting | B |
| Idly thou dreamest while I'm onwards hasting | B |
| Wilt thou not wake Alas weep now I've passed for ever | C |
| Weep for Repentance henceforth leaves thee never | C |
Lady Jane Wilde
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