Asolando - Prologue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABC DEFEE GHGHH IGIGG BJGJG GKGKG LALAL MNMNM GMGMG D| The Poet's age is sad for why | A |
| In youth the natural world could show | B |
| No common object but his eye | A |
| At once involved with alien glow | B |
| His own soul's iris bow | C |
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| And now a flower is just a flower | D |
| Man bird beast are but beast bird man | E |
| Simply themselves uncinct by dower | F |
| Of dyes which when life's day began | E |
| Round each in glory ran | E |
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| Friend did you need an optic glass | G |
| Which were your choice A lens to drape | H |
| In ruby emerald chrysopras | G |
| Each object or reveal its shape | H |
| Clear outlined past escape | H |
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| The naked very thing so clear | I |
| That when you had the chance to gaze | G |
| You found its inmost self appear | I |
| Through outer seeming truth ablaze | G |
| Not falsehood's fancy haze | G |
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| How many a year my Asolo | B |
| Since one step just from sea to land | J |
| I found you loved yet feared you so | G |
| For natural objects seemed to stand | J |
| Palpably fire clothed No | G |
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| No mastery of mine o'er these | G |
| Terror with beauty like the Bush | K |
| Burning but unconsumed Bend knees | G |
| Drop eyes to earthward Language Tush | K |
| Silence 'tis awe decrees | G |
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| And now The lambent flame is where | L |
| Lost from the naked world earth sky | A |
| Hill vale tree flower Italia's rare | L |
| O'er running beauty crowds the eye | A |
| But flame The Bush is bare | L |
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| Hill vale tree flower they stand distinct | M |
| Nature to know and name What then | N |
| A Voice spoke thence which straight unlinked | M |
| Fancy from fact see all's in ken | N |
| Has once my eyelid winked | M |
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| No for the purged ear apprehends | G |
| Earth's import not the eye late dazed | M |
| The Voice said Call my works thy friends | G |
| At Nature dost thou shrink amazed | M |
| God is it who transcends | G |
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| Asolo September | D |
Robert Browning
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