Scene From 'tasso' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAA CDE FFA CFGHI FDHJ CF CHJ FK FLKKFFM CFF CNC| MADDALO A COURTIER | A |
| MALPIGLIO A POET | B |
| PIGNA A MINISTER | A |
| ALBANO AN USHER | A |
| - | |
| MADDALO | C |
| No access to the Duke You have not said | D |
| That the Count Maddalo would speak with him | E |
| - | |
| PIGNA | F |
| Did you inform his Grace that Signor Pigna | F |
| Waits with state papers for his signature | A |
| - | |
| MALPIGLIO | C |
| The Lady Leonora cannot know | F |
| That I have written a sonnet to her fame | G |
| In which I Venus and Adonis | H |
| You should not take my gold and serve me not | I |
| - | |
| ALBANO | F |
| In truth I told her and she smiled and said | D |
| 'If I am Venus thou coy Poesy | H |
| Art the Adonis whom I love and he | J |
| The Erymanthian boar that wounded him ' | - |
| O trust to me Signor Malpiglio | C |
| Those nods and smiles were favours worth the zechin | F |
| - | |
| MALPIGLIO | C |
| The words are twisted in some double sense | H |
| That I reach not the smiles fell not on me | J |
| - | |
| PIGNA | F |
| How are the Duke and Duchess occupied | K |
| - | |
| ALBANO | F |
| Buried in some strange talk The Duke was leaning | L |
| His finger on his brow his lips unclosed | K |
| The Princess sate within the window seat | K |
| And so her face was hid but on her knee | F |
| Her hands were clasped veined and pale as snow | F |
| And quivering young Tasso too was there | M |
| - | |
| MADDALO | C |
| Thou seest on whom from thine own worshipped heaven | F |
| Thou drawest down smiles they did not rain on thee | F |
| - | |
| MALPIGLIO | C |
| Would they were parching lightnings for his sake | N |
| On whom they fell | C |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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