A Serenade At The Villa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCB A ADADA A EFGFE F HIHIH F JKJKJ F LMLML F FNFN F LLLLL L IOIOI L PQPQP L LRLR L LSLTL| I | A |
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| That was I you heard last night | B |
| When there rose no moon at all | C |
| Nor to pierce the strained and tight | B |
| Tent of heaven a planet small | C |
| Life was dead and so was light | B |
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| II | A |
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| Not a twinkle from the fly | A |
| Not a glimmer from the worm | D |
| When the crickets stopped their cry | A |
| When the owls forbore a term | D |
| You heard music that was I | A |
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| III | A |
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| Earth turned in her sleep with pain | E |
| Sultrily suspired for proof | F |
| In at heaven and out again | G |
| Lightning where it broke the roof | F |
| Bloodlike some few drops of rain | E |
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| IV | F |
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| What they could my words expressed | H |
| O my love my all my one | I |
| Singing helped the verses best | H |
| And when singing's best was done | I |
| To my lute I left the rest | H |
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| V | F |
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| So wore night the East was gray | J |
| White the broad faced hemlock flowers | K |
| There would be another day | J |
| Ere its first of heavy hours | K |
| Found me I had passed away | J |
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| VI | F |
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| What became of all the hopes | L |
| Words and song and lute as well | M |
| Say this struck you When life gropes | L |
| Feebly for the path where fell | M |
| Light last on the evening slopes | L |
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| VII | F |
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| One friend in that path shall be | F |
| To secure my step from wrong | N |
| One to count night day for me | F |
| Patient through the watches long | N |
| Serving most with none to see '' | - |
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| VIII | F |
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| Never say as something bodes | L |
| So the worst has yet a worse | L |
| When life halts 'neath double loads | L |
| Better the taskmaster's curse | L |
| Than such music on the roads | L |
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| IX | L |
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| When no moon succeeds the sun | I |
| Nor can pierce the midnight's tent | O |
| Any star the smallest one | I |
| While some drops where lightning rent | O |
| Show the final storm begun | I |
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| X | L |
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| When the fire fly hides its spot | P |
| When the garden voices fail | Q |
| In the darkness thick and hot | P |
| Shall another voice avail | Q |
| That shape be where these are not | P |
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| XI | L |
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| Has some plague a longer lease | L |
| Proffering its help uncouth | R |
| Can't one even die in peace | L |
| As one shuts one's eyes on youth | R |
| Is that face the last one sees '' | - |
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| XII | L |
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| Oh how dark your villa was | L |
| Windows fast and obdurate | S |
| How the garden grudged me grass | L |
| Where I stood the iron gate | T |
| Ground its teeth to let me pass | L |
Robert Browning
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