The Pine Forest Of The Cascine Near Pisa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDEEFFGHIIJJKKLL MM BBNNOOPPKK QRSQTSTR AUVU WBWB PXPY GZHZ A2B2C2B2 D2E2F2E2 G2ZG2Z B2H2B2H2 I2A2I2M E2KE2K J2RJ2D K2BK2B E2A2E2A2 L2VVV M2VM2V I2N2I2N2 O2A2P2A2 J2VJ2V VN2VN2Dearest best and brightest | A |
Come away | B |
To the woods and to the fields | C |
Dearer than this fairest day | B |
Which like thee to those in sorrow | D |
Comes to bid a sweet good morrow | D |
To the rough Year just awake | E |
In its cradle in the brake | E |
The eldest of the Hours of Spring | F |
Into the Winter wandering | F |
Looks upon the leafless wood | G |
And the banks all bare and rude | H |
Found it seems this halcyon Morn | I |
In February s bosom born | I |
Bending from Heaven in azure mirth | J |
Kissed the cold forehead of the Earth | J |
And smiled upon the silent sea | K |
And bade the frozen streams be free | K |
And waked to music all the fountains | L |
And breathed upon the rigid mountains | L |
And made the wintry world appear | M |
Like one on whom thou smilest Dear | M |
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Radiant Sister of the Day | B |
Awake arise and come away | B |
To the wild woods and the plains | N |
To the pools where winter rains | N |
Image all the roof of leaves | O |
Where the pine its garland weaves | O |
Sapless gray and ivy dun | P |
Round stems that never kiss the sun | P |
To the sandhills of the sea | K |
Where the earliest violets be | K |
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Now the last day of many days | Q |
All beautiful and bright as thou | R |
The loveliest and the last is dead | S |
Rise Memory and write its praise | Q |
And do thy wonted work and trace | T |
The epitaph of glory fled | S |
For now the Earth has changed its face | T |
A frown is on the Heaven s brow | R |
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We wandered to the Pine Forest | A |
That skirts the Ocean's foam | U |
The lightest wind was in its nest | V |
The tempest in its home | U |
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The whispering waves were half asleep | W |
The clouds were gone to play | B |
And on the woods and on the deep | W |
The smile of Heaven lay | B |
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It seemed as if the day were one | P |
Sent from beyond the skies | X |
Which shed to earth above the sun | P |
A light of Paradise | Y |
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We paused amid the pines that stood | G |
The giants of the waste | Z |
Tortured by storms to shapes as rude | H |
With stems like serpents interlaced | Z |
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How calm it was the silence there | A2 |
By such a chain was bound | B2 |
That even the busy woodpecker | C2 |
Made stiller by her sound | B2 |
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The inviolable quietness | D2 |
The breath of peace we drew | E2 |
With its soft motion made not less | F2 |
The calm that round us grew | E2 |
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It seemed that from the remotest seat | G2 |
Of the white mountain's waste | Z |
To the bright flower beneath our feet | G2 |
A magic circle traced | Z |
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A spirit interfused around | B2 |
A thinking silent life | H2 |
To momentary peace it bound | B2 |
Our mortal nature s strife | H2 |
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And still it seemed the centre of | I2 |
The magic circle there | A2 |
Was one whose being filled with love | I2 |
The breathless atmosphere | M |
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Were not the crocuses that grew | E2 |
Under that ilex tree | K |
As beautiful in scent and hue | E2 |
As ever fed the bee | K |
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We stood beneath the pools that lie | J2 |
Under the forest bough | R |
And each seemed like a sky | J2 |
Gulfed in a world below | D |
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A purple firmament of light | K2 |
Which in the dark earth lay | B |
More boundless than the depth of night | K2 |
And clearer than the day | B |
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In which the massy forests grew | E2 |
As in the upper air | A2 |
More perfect both in shape and hue | E2 |
Than any waving there | A2 |
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Like one beloved the scene had lent | L2 |
To the dark water's breast | V |
Its every leaf and lineament | V |
With that clear truth expressed | V |
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There lay far glades and neighbouring lawn | M2 |
And through the dark green crowd | V |
The white sun twinkling like the dawn | M2 |
Under a speckled cloud | V |
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Sweet views which in our world above | I2 |
Can never well be seen | N2 |
Were imaged by the water's love | I2 |
Of that fair forest green | N2 |
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And all was interfused beneath | O2 |
With an Elysian air | A2 |
An atmosphere without a breath | P2 |
A silence sleeping there | A2 |
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Until a wandering wind crept by | J2 |
Like an unwelcome thought | V |
Which from my mind's too faithful eye | J2 |
Blots thy bright image out | V |
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For thou art good and dear and kind | V |
The forest ever green | N2 |
But less of peace in S 's mind | V |
Than calm in waters seen | N2 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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