On A Viola D'amore Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDD EFEFGG HAHAIJ KCKKLL| CARVED WITH A CUPID'S HEAD AND PLAYED ON FOR THE FIRST TIME AFTER MORE THAN A CENTURY | A |
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| What fairy music clear and light | B |
| Responsive to your fingers | C |
| Swells rippling on the summer night | B |
| And amorously lingers | C |
| Upon the sense as long ago | D |
| In days of rouge and rococo | D |
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| A century of silence lay | E |
| On strings that had not spoken | F |
| Since powdered lords to ladies gay | E |
| Gave for a lover's token | F |
| Fans glowing fresh from Watteau's art | G |
| Well worth a marchioness's heart | G |
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| Your dormant music tranced and bound | H |
| Was like the Sleeping Beauty | A |
| Prince Charming in the forest found | H |
| And kissed in loyal duty | A |
| And when she woke her eyes' blue fire | I |
| Turned the dumb forest to a lyre | J |
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| Thus Amor with the bandaged eyes | K |
| Fit symbol of hushed numbers | C |
| Most musically wakes and sighs | K |
| After an age of slumbers | K |
| Beneath your magic bow's control | L |
| The Viol has regained her soul | L |
Mathilde Blind
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