Ugolino Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCB CDE FEF EGE HIH IHI JEK EKE LLM LML NON OPO QOQ NQN LNL RLR SRS RSR NRP CPC TCT C| INFERNO | A |
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| Now had the loophole of that dungeon still | B |
| Which bears the name of Famine's Tower from me | C |
| And where tis fit that many another will | B |
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| Be doomed to linger in captivity | C |
| Shown through its narrow opening in my cell | D |
| Moon after moon slow waning when a sleep | E |
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| That of the future burst the veil in dream | F |
| Visited me It was a slumber deep | E |
| And evil for I saw or I did seem | F |
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| To see that tyrant Lord his revels keep | E |
| The leader of the cruel hunt to them | G |
| Chasing the wolf and wolf cubs up the steep | E |
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| Ascent that from the Pisan is the screen | H |
| Of Lucca with him Gualandi came | I |
| Sismondi and Lanfranchi bloodhounds lean | H |
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| Trained to the sport and eager for the game | I |
| Wide ranging in his front but soon were seen | H |
| Though by so short a course with spirits tame | I |
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| The father and his whelps to flag at once | J |
| And then the sharp fangs gored their bosoms deep | E |
| Ere morn I roused myself and heard my sons | K |
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| For they were with me moaning in their sleep | E |
| And begging bread Ah for those darling ones | K |
| Right cruel art thou if thou dost not weep | E |
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| In thinking of my soul s sad augury | L |
| And if thou weepest not now weep never more | L |
| They were already waked as wont drew nigh | M |
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| The allotted hour for food and in that hour | L |
| Each drew a presage from his dream When I | M |
| Heard locked beneath me of that horrible tower | L |
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| The outlet then into their eyes alone | N |
| I looked to read myself without a sign | O |
| Or word I wept not turned within to stone | N |
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| They wept aloud and little Anselm mine | O |
| Said twas my youngest dearest little one | P |
| What ails thee father Why look so at thine | O |
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| In all that day and all the following night | Q |
| I wept not nor replied but when to shine | O |
| Upon the world not us came forth the light | Q |
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| Of the new sun and thwart my prison thrown | N |
| Gleamed through its narrow chink a doleful sight | Q |
| Three faces each the reflex of my own | N |
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| Were imaged by its faint and ghastly ray | L |
| Then I of either hand unto the bone | N |
| Gnawed in my agony and thinking they | L |
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| Twas done from sudden pangs in their excess | R |
| All of a sudden raise themselves and say | L |
| Father our woes so great were yet the less | R |
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| Would you but eat of us twas you who clad | S |
| Our bodies in these weeds of wretchedness | R |
| Despoil them Not to make their hearts more sad | S |
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| I hushed myself That day is at its close | R |
| Another still we were all mute Oh had | S |
| The obdurate earth opened to end our woes | R |
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| The fourth day dawned and when the new sun shone | N |
| Outstretched himself before me as it rose | R |
| My Gaddo saying Help father hast thou none | P |
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| For thine own child is there no help from thee | C |
| He died there at my feet and one by one | P |
| I saw them fall plainly as you see me | C |
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| Between the fifth and sixth day ere twas dawn | T |
| I found myself blind groping o er the three | C |
| Three days I called them after they were gone | T |
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| Famine of grief can get the mastery | C |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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