Il Bacio [english] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DEED DFFD GHHI| Kiss Hollyhock in Love's luxuriant close | A |
| Brisk music played on pearly little keys | B |
| In tempo with the witching melodies | B |
| Love in the ardent heart repeating goes | C |
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| Sonorous graceful Kiss hail Kiss divine | D |
| Unequalled boon unutterable bliss | E |
| Man bent o'er thine enthralling chalice Kiss | E |
| Grows drunken with a rapture only thine | D |
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| Thou comfortest as music does and wine | D |
| And grief dies smothered in thy purple fold | F |
| Let one greater than I Kiss and more bold | F |
| Rear thee a classic monumental line | D |
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| Humble Parisian bard this infantile | G |
| Bouquet of rhymes I tender half in fear | H |
| Be gracious and in guerdon on the dear | H |
| Red lips of One I know alight and smile | I |
Paul Verlaine
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