Evening: Ponte Al Mare, Pisa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDD AEFEFGG AHIHIJK LMNMNOO| I | A |
| The sun is set the swallows are asleep | B |
| The bats are flitting fast in the gray air | C |
| The slow soft toads out of damp corners creep | B |
| And evening s breath wandering here and there | C |
| Over the quivering surface of the stream | D |
| Wakes not one ripple from its summer dream | D |
| - | |
| II | A |
| There is no dew on the dry grass to night | E |
| Nor damp within the shadow of the trees | F |
| The wind is intermitting dry and light | E |
| And in the inconstant motion of the breeze | F |
| The dust and straws are driven up and down | G |
| And whirled about the pavement of the town | G |
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| III | A |
| Within the surface of the fleeting river | H |
| The wrinkled image of the city lay | I |
| Immovably unquiet and forever | H |
| It trembles but it never fades away | I |
| Go to the | J |
| You being changed will find it then as now | K |
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| IV | L |
| The chasm in which the sun has sunk is shut | M |
| By darkest barriers of cinereous cloud | N |
| Like mountain over mountain huddled but | M |
| Growing and moving upwards in a crowd | N |
| And over it a space of watery blue | O |
| Which the keen evening star is shining through | O |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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