Boston To Florence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DBBDDBBDEFGEEF| Sent to 'The Philological Circle' of Florence for its | A |
| meeting in commemoration of Dante January | B |
| the anniversary of his first condemnation | C |
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| PROUD of her clustering spires her new built towers | D |
| Our Venice stolen from the slumbering sea | B |
| A sister's kindliest greeting wafts to thee | B |
| Rose of Val d' Arno queen of all its flowers | D |
| Thine exile's shrine thy sorrowing love embowers | D |
| Yet none with truer homage bends the knee | B |
| Or stronger pledge of fealty brings than we | B |
| Whose poets make thy dead Immortal ours | D |
| Lonely the height but ah to heaven how near | E |
| Dante whence flowed that solemn verse of thine | F |
| Like the stern river from its Apennine | G |
| Whose name the far off Scythian thrilled with fear | E |
| Now to all lands thy deep toned voice is dear | E |
| And every language knows the Song Divine | F |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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