Sonnet Vi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA BAAB CDC DCD E| Mighty Venice now has fallen low | A |
| One hears no songs no sound of festive balls | B |
| On steps of marble and through gateways falls | B |
| The pallid moon's unearthly silver glow | A |
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| Okeanos there his sorrow calls | B |
| In him alone eternal youth does blow | A |
| Yet on his bride would he his breath bestow | A |
| The waves break plaintively against the walls | B |
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| The town is silent as a burial ground | C |
| Only the priests of bygone days remain | D |
| Saint Mark tolls sinister the midnight round | C |
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| In sombre tones his slow sibylline strain | D |
| He nightly speaks with smooth and cadenced sound | C |
| 'The dead my child no more come back again' | D |
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| Translated by Corneliu M Popescu | E |
Mihai Eminescu
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