Rudel To The Lady Of Tripoli Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFGFGHIIAHJ A KKK A LLMMLLJJLNLNLOPI | A |
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I know a Mount the gracious Sun perceives | B |
First when he visits last too when he leaves | B |
The world and vainly favoured it repays | C |
The day long glory of his steadfast gaze | C |
By no change of its large calm front of snow | D |
And underneath the Mount a Flower I know | D |
He cannot have perceived that changes ever | E |
At his approach and in the lost endeavour | E |
To live his life has parted one by one | F |
With all a flower's true graces for the grace | G |
Of being but a foolish mimic sun | F |
With ray like florets round a disk like face | G |
Men nobly call by many a name the Mount | H |
As over many a land of theirs its large | I |
Calm front of snow like a triumphal targe | I |
Is reared and still with old names fresh names vie | A |
Each to its proper praise and own account | H |
Men call the Flower the Sunflower sportively | J |
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II | A |
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Oh Angel of the East one one gold look | K |
Across the waters to this twilight nook | K |
The far sad waters Angel to this nook | K |
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III | A |
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Dear Pilgrim are thou for the East indeed | L |
Go Saying ever as thou dost proceed | L |
That I French Rudel choose for my device | M |
A sunflower outspread like a sacrifice | M |
Before its idol See These inexpert | L |
And hurried fingers could not fail to hurt | L |
The woven picture 'tis a woman's skill | J |
Indeed but nothing baffled me so ill | J |
Or well the work is finished Say men feed | L |
On songs I sing and therefore bask the bees | N |
On my flower's breast as on a platform broad | L |
But as the flower's concern is not for these | N |
But solely for the sun so men applaud | L |
In vain this Rudel he not looking here | O |
But to the East that East Go say this Pilgrim dear | P |
Robert Browning
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