Pippa Passes: Part Iii: Evening Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Scene Inside the Turret on the Hill above Asolo Luigi and his Mother entering	A
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Mother	B
If there blew wind you'd hear a long sigh easing	A
The utmost heaviness of music's heart	C
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Luigi	D
Here in the archway	E
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Mother	B
Oh no no in farther	B
Where the echo is made on the ridge	F
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Luigi	D
Here surely then	G
How plain the tap of my heel as I leaped up	H
Hark Lucius Junius The very ghost of a voice	I
Whose body is caught and kept by what are those	J
Mere withered wallflowers waving overhead	K
They seem an elvish group with thin bleached hair	L
That lean out of their topmost fortress look	M
And listen mountain men to what we say	E
Hand under chin of each grave earthy face	N
Up and show faces all of you All of you	O
That's the king dwarf with the scarlet comb old Franz	P
Come down and meet your fate Hark Meet your fate	Q
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Mother	B
Let him not meet it my Luigi do not	R
Go to his City Putting crime aside	S
Half of these ills of Italy are feigned	T
Your Pellicos and writers for effect	U
Write for effect	U
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Luigi	D
Hush Say A writes and B	D
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Mother	B
These A s and B s write for effect I say	E
Then evil is in its nature loud while good	V
Is silent you hear each petty injury	D
None of his virtues he is old beside	S
Quiet and kind and densely stupid Why	W
Do A and B not kill him themselves	X
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Luigi	D
They teach	Y
Others to kill him me and if I fail	Z
Others to succeed now if A tried and failed	A2
I could not teach that mine's the lesser task	B2
Mother they visit night by night	C2
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Mother	B
You Luigi	D
Ah will you let me tell you what you are	D2
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Luigi	D
Why not Oh the one thing you fear to hint	E2
You may assure yourself I say and say	E
Ever to myself At times nay even as now	F2
We sit I think my mind is touched suspect	U
All is not sound but is not knowing that	G2
What constitutes one sane or otherwise	H2
I know I am thus so all is right again	G
I laugh at myself as through the town I walk	I2
And see men merry as if no Italy	D
Were suffering then I ponder I am rich	J2
Young healthy why should this fact trouble me	D
More than it troubles these But it does trouble	K2
No trouble's a bad word for as I walk	I2
There's springing and melody and giddiness	H2
And old quaint turns and passages of my youth	L2
Dreams long forgotten little in themselves	H2
Return to me whatever may amuse me	D
And earth seems in a truce with me and heaven	M2
Accords with me all things suspend their strife	N2
The very cicala laughs There goes he and there	L
Feast him the time is short he is on his way	E
For the world's sake feast him this once our friend	O2
And in return for all this I can trip	P2
Cheerfully up the scaffold steps I go	Q2
This evening mother	B
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Mother	B
But mistrust yourself	R2
Mistrust the judgment you pronounce on him	S2
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Luigi	D
Oh there I feel am sure that I am right	C2
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Mother	B
Mistrust your judgment then of the mere means	H2
To this wild enterprise Say you are right	C2
How should one in your state e'er bring to pass	H2
What would require a cool head a cold heart	C
And a calm hand You never will escape	T2
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Luigi	D
Escape To even wish that would spoil all	U2
The dying is best part of it Too much	V2
Have I enjoyed these fifteen years of mine	W2
To leave myself excuse for longer life	N2
Was not life pressed down running o'er with joy	X2
That I might finish with it ere my fellows	H2
Who sparelier feasted make a longer stay	E
I was put at the board head helped to all	U2
At first I rise up happy and content	Y2
God must be glad one loves his world so much	V2
I can give news of earth to all the dead	K
Who ask me last year's sunsets and great stars	H2
Which had a right to come first and see ebb	Z2
The crimson wave that drifts the sun away	E
Those crescent moons with notched and burning rims	H2
That strengthened into sharp fire and there stood	V
Impatient of the azure and that day	E
In March a double rainbow stopped the storm	A3
May's warm slow yellow moonlit summer nights	H2
Gone are they but I have them in my soul	B3
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Mother	B
He will not go	Q2
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Luigi	D
You smile at me 'T is true	O
Voluptuousness grotesqueness ghastliness	H2
Environ my devotedness as quaintly	D
As round about some antique altar wreathe	L2
The rose festoons goats' horns and oxen's skulls	H2
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Mother	B
See now you reach the city you must cross	H2
His threshold how	F2
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Luigi	D
Oh that's if we conspired	C3
Then would come pains in plenty as you guess	H2
But guess not how the qualities most fit	D3
For such an office qualities I have	E3
Would little stead me otherwise employed	F3
Yet prove of rarest merit only here	G3
Every one knows for what his excellence	H2
Will serve but no one ever will consider	B
For what his worst defect might serve and yet	H3
Have you not seen me range our coppice yonder	B
In search of a distorted ash I find	I3
The wry spoilt branch a natural perfect bow	F2
Fancy the thrice sage thrice precautioned man	J3
Arriving at the palace on my errand	K3
No no I have a handsome dress packed up	H
White satin here to set off my black hair	L
In I shall march for you may watch your life out	L3
Behind thick walls make friends there to betray you	O
More than one man spoils everything March straight	Q
Only no clumsy knife to fumble for	M3
Take the great gate and walk not saunter on	N3
Thro' guards and guards I have rehearsed it all	U2
Inside the turret here a hundred times	H2
Don't ask the way of whom you meet observe	O3
But where they cluster thickliest is the door	M3
Of doors they'll let you pass they'll never blab	F2
Each to the other he knows not the favourite	Q
Whence he is bound and what's his business now	F2
Walk in straight up to him you have no knife	N2
Be prompt how should he scream Then out with you	O
Italy Italy my Italy	D
You're free you're free Oh mother I could dream	P3
They got about me Andrea from his exile	Q3
Pier from his dungeon Gualtier from his grave	R3
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Mother	B
Well you shall go Yet seems this patriotism	S3
The easiest virtue for a selfish man	J3
To acquire he loves himself and next the world	Q
If he must love beyond but nought between	T3
As a short sighted man sees nought midway	E
His body and the sun above But you	O
Are my adored Luigi ever obedient	Q
To my least wish and running o'er with love	U3
I could not call you cruel or unkind	Q
Once more your ground for killing him then go	Q2
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Luigi	D
Now do you try me or make sport of me	D
How first the Austrians got these provinces	H2
If that is all I'll satisfy you soon	V3
Never by conquest but by cunning for	M3
That treaty whereby	F2
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Mother	B
Well	W3
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Luigi	D
Sure he's arrived	Q
The tell tale cuckoo spring's his confidant	Q
And he lets out her April purposes	H2
Or better go at once to modern time	X3
He has they have in fact I understand	Q
But can't restate the matter that's my boast	Q
Others could reason it out to you and prove	Y3
Things they have made me feel	Z3
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Mother	B
Why go to night	Q
Morn's for adventure Jupiter is now	F2
A morning star I cannot hear you Luigi	D
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Luigi	D
I am the bright and morning star saith God	Q
And to such an one I give the morning star	D2
The gift of the morning star Have I God's gift	Q
Of the morning star	D2
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Mother	B
Chiara will love to see	D
That Jupiter an evening star next June	V3
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Luigi	D
True mother Well for those who live through June	V3
Great noontides thunder storms all glaring pomps	D
That triumph at the heels of June the god	Q
Leading his revel through our leafy world	Q
Yes Chiara will be here	G3
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Mother	B
In June remember	B
Yourself appointed that month for her coming	A
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Luigi	D
Was that low noise the echo	Q2
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Mother	B
The night wind	Q
She must be grown with her blue eyes upturned	Q
As if life were one long and sweet surprise	D
In June she comes	D
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Luigi	D
We were to see together	B
The Titian at Treviso There again	G
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From without is heard the voice of Pippa singing	A
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A king lived long ago	Q2
In the morning of the world	Q
When earth was nigher heaven than now	F2
And the king's locks curled	Q
Disparting o'er a forehead full	A4
As the milk white space 'twixt horn and horn	B4
Of some sacrificial bull	A4
Only calm as a babe new born	B4
For he was got to a sleepy mood	Q
So safe from all decrepitude	Q
Age with its bane so sure gone by	F2
The gods so loved him while he dreamed	Q
That having lived thus long there seemed	Q
No need the king should ever die	F2
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Luigi	D
No need that sort of king should ever die	F2
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Among the rocks his city was	D
Before his palace in the sun	M2
He sat to see his people pass	D
And judge them every one	M2
From its threshold of smooth stone	C4
They haled him many a valley thief	D4
Caught in the sheep pens robber chief	D4
Swarthy and shameless beggar cheat	Q
Spy prowler or rough pirate found	Q
On the sea sand left aground	Q
And sometimes clung about his feet	Q
With bleeding lip and burning cheek	E4
A woman bitterest wrong to speak	E4
Of one with sullen thickset brows	D
And sometimes from the prison house	D
The angry priests a pale wretch brought	Q
Who through some chink had pushed and pressed	Q
On knees and elbows belly and breast	Q
Worm like into the temple caught	Q
He was by the very god	Q
Who ever in the darkness strode	Q
Backward and forward keeping watch	F4
O'er his brazen bowls such rogues to catch	G4
These all and every one	M2
The king judged sitting in the sun	M2
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Luigi	D
That king should still judge sitting in the sun	M2
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His councillors on left and right	Q
Looked anxious up but no surprise	D
Disturbed the king's old smiling eyes	D
Where the very blue had turned to white	Q
'T is said a Python scared one day	Q
The breathless city till he came	H4
With forky tongue and eyes on flame	H4
Where the old king sat to judge alway	E
But when he saw the sweepy hair	L
Girt with a crown of berries rare	L
Which the god will hardly give to wear	L
To the maiden who singeth dancing bare	L
In the altar smoke by the pine torch lights	D
At his wondrous forest rites	D
Seeing this he did not dare	L
Approach that threshold in the sun	M2
Assault the old king smiling there	L
Such grace had kings when the world begun	M2
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Pippa passes	D
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Luigi	D
And such grace have they now that the world ends	D
The Python at the city on the throne	C4
And brave men God would crown for slaying him	S2
Lurk in bye corners lest they fall his prey	Q
Are crowns yet to be won in this late time	X3
Which weakness makes me hesitate to reach	Y
'T is God's voice calls how could I stay Farewell	W3
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Talk by the way while Pippa is passing from the Turret to the Bishop's Brother's House close to the Duomo S Maria PoorGirls sitting on the steps	D
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st Girl	I4
There goes a swallow to Venice the stout seafarer	B
Seeing those birds fly makes one wish for wings	D
Let us all wish you wish first	Q
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nd Girl	I4
I This sunset	Q
To finish	J4
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rd Girl	I4
That old somebody I know	Q2
Greyer and older than my grandfather	B
To give me the same treat he gave last week	E4
Feeding me on his knee with fig peckers	D
Lampreys and red Breganze wine and mumbling	A
The while some folly about how well I fare	L
Let sit and eat my supper quietly	D
Since had he not himself been late this morning	A
Detained at never mind where had he not	Q
Eh baggage had I not	Q
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nd Girl	I4
How she can lie	F2
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rd Girl	I4
Look there by the nails	D
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nd Girl	I4
What makes your fingers red	Q
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rd Girl	I4
Dipping them into wine to write bad words with	L2
On the bright table how he laughed	Q
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st Girl	I4
My turn	K4
Spring's come and summer's coming I would wear	L
A long loose gown down to the feet and hands	D
With plaits here close about the throat all day	Q
And all night lie the cool long nights in bed	Q
And have new milk to drink apples to eat	Q
Deuzans and junetings leather coats ah I should say	Q
This is away in the fields miles	D
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rd Girl	I4
Say at once	D
You'd be at home she'd always be at home	L4
Now comes the story of the farm among	M4
The cherry orchards and how April snowed	Q
White blossoms on her as she ran Why fool	N4
They've rubved the chalk mark out how tall you were	B
Twisted your starling's neck broken his cage	O4
Made a dung hill of your garden	M2
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st Girl	I4
They destroy	X2
My garden since I left them well perhaps	D
I would have done so so I hope they have	E3
A fig tree curled out of our cottage wall	U2
They called it mine I have forgotten why	F2
It must have been there long ere I was born	B4
Cric cric I think I hear the wasps o'erhead	Q
Pricking the papers strung to flutter there	L
And keep off birds in fruit time coarse long papers	D
And the wasps eat them prick them through and through	O
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rd Girl	I4
How her mouth twitches Where was I before	M3
She broke in with her wishes and long gowns	D
And wasps would I be such a fool Oh here	G3
This is my way I answer every one	M2
Who asks me why I make so much of him	S2
If you say you love him straight he'll not be gulled	Q
He that seduced me when I was a girl	I4
Thus high had eyes like yours or hair like yours	D
Brown red white as the case may be that pleases	D
See how that beetle burnishes in the path	L2
There sparkles he along the dust and there	L
Your journey to that maize tuft spoiled at least	Q
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st Girl	I4
When I was young they said if you killed one	M2
Of those sunshiny beetles that his friend	Q
Up there would shine no more that day nor next	Q
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nd Girl	I4
When you were young Nor are you young that's true	O
How your plump arms that were have dropped away	Q
Why I can span them Cecco beats you still	P4
No matter so you keep your curious hair	L
I wish they'd find a way to dye our hair	L
Your colour any lighter tint indeed	Q
Than black the men say they are sick of black	Q4
Black eyes black hair	L
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th Girl	I4
Sick of yours like enough	R4
Do you pretend you ever tasted lampreys	D
And ortolans Giovita of the palace	D
Engaged but there's no trusting him to slice me	D
Polenta with a knife that had cut up	H
An ortolan	M2
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nd Girl	I4
Why there Is not that Pippa	H
We are to talk to under the window quick	S4
Where the lights are	D2
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st Girl	I4
That she No or she would sing	A
For the Intendant said	Q
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rd Girl	I4
Oh you sing first	Q
Then if she listens and comes close I'll tell you	O
Sing that song the young English noble made	Q
Who took you for the purest of the pure	T4
And meant to leave the world for you what fun	M2
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nd Girl	I4
sings	D
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You'll love me yet and I can tarry	D
Your love's protracted growing	A
June reared that bunch of flowers you carry	D
From seeds of April's sowing	A
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I plant a heartful now some seed	Q
At least is sure to strike	U4
And yield what you'll not pluck indeed	Q
Not love but may be like	U4
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You'll look at least on love's remains	D
A grave's one violet	Q
Your look that pays a thousand pains	D
What's death You'll love me yet	Q
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rd Girl	I4
to Pippa who approaches	D
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Oh you may come closer we shall not eat you Why you seem the very person that the great rich handsome Englishman has fallen so violently in love with I'll tell you all about it	Q

Robert Browning

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