The Zucca Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCBCDD AEBEBEBFF AFGFGFHII JFKFKFKFF JKKKKKKFF JLJLJLJFF JMF JFFFFFFFF LHFHFGFFF LNFNFNFFF LLOLOLOFL| I | A |
| Summer was dead and Autumn was expiring | B |
| And infant Winter laughed upon the land | C |
| All cloudlessly and cold when I desiring | B |
| More in this world than any understand | C |
| Wept o er the beauty which like sea retiring | B |
| Had left the earth bare as the wave worn sand | C |
| Of my lorn heart and o er the grass and flowers | D |
| Pale for the falsehood of the flattering Hours | D |
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| II | A |
| Summer was dead but I yet lived to weep | E |
| The instability of all but weeping | B |
| And on the Earth lulled in her winter sleep | E |
| I woke and envied her as she was sleeping | B |
| Too happy Earth over thy face shall creep | E |
| The wakening vernal airs until thou leaping | B |
| From unremembered dreams shalt see | F |
| No death divide thy immortality | F |
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| III | A |
| I loved oh no I mean not one of ye | F |
| Or any earthly one though ye are dear | G |
| As human heart to human heart may be | F |
| I loved I know not what but this low sphere | G |
| And all that it contains contains not thee | F |
| Thou whom seen nowhere I feel everywhere | H |
| From Heaven and Earth and all that in them are | I |
| Veiled art thou like a star | I |
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| IV | J |
| By Heaven and Earth from all whose shapes thou flowest | F |
| Neither to be contained delayed nor hidden | K |
| Making divine the loftiest and the lowest | F |
| When for a moment thou art not forbidden | K |
| To live within the life which thou bestowest | F |
| And leaving noblest things vacant and chidden | K |
| Cold as a corpse after the spirit s flight | F |
| Blank as the sun after the birth of night | F |
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| V | J |
| In winds and trees and streams and all things common | K |
| In music and the sweet unconscious tone | K |
| Of animals and voices which are human | K |
| Meant to express some feelings of their own | K |
| In the soft motions and rare smile of woman | K |
| In flowers and leaves and in the grass fresh shown | K |
| Or dying in the autumn I the most | F |
| Adore thee present or lament thee lost | F |
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| VI | J |
| And thus I went lamenting when I saw | L |
| A plant upon the river s margin lie | J |
| Like one who loved beyond his nature s law | L |
| And in despair had cast him down to die | J |
| Its leaves which had outlived the frost the thaw | L |
| Had blighted like a heart which hatred s eye | J |
| Can blast not but which pity kills the dew | F |
| Lay on its spotted leaves like tears too true | F |
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| VII | J |
| The Heavens had wept upon it but the Earth | M |
| Had crushed it on her maternal breast | F |
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| VIII | J |
| I bore it to my chamber and I planted | F |
| It in a vase full of the lightest mould | F |
| The winter beams which out of Heaven slanted | F |
| Fell through the window panes disrobed of cold | F |
| Upon its leaves and flowers the stars which panted | F |
| In evening for the Day whose car has rolled | F |
| Over the horizon s wave with looks of light | F |
| Smiled on it from the threshold of the night | F |
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| IX | L |
| The mitigated influences of air | H |
| And light revived the plant and from it grew | F |
| Strong leaves and tendrils and its flowers fair | H |
| Full as a cup with the vine s burning dew | F |
| O erflowed with golden colours an atmosphere | G |
| Of vital warmth enfolded it anew | F |
| And every impulse sent to every part | F |
| The unbeheld pulsations of its heart | F |
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| X | L |
| Well might the plant grow beautiful and strong | N |
| Even if the air and sun had smiled not on it | F |
| For one wept o er it all the winter long | N |
| Tears pure as Heaven s rain which fell upon it | F |
| Hour after hour for sounds of softest song | N |
| Mixed with the stringed melodies that won it | F |
| To leave the gentle lips on which it slept | F |
| Had loosed the heart of him who sat and wept | F |
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| XI | L |
| Had loosed his heart and shook the leaves and flowers | L |
| On which he wept the while the savage storm | O |
| Waked by the darkest of December s hours | L |
| Was raving round the chamber hushed and warm | O |
| The birds were shivering in their leafless bowers | L |
| The fish were frozen in the pools the form | O |
| Of every summer plant was dead | F |
| Whilst this | L |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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