Eleonora Duse As Magda Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCCDEEFDGHIHJKKJ LMMNHH| The theatre is still and Duse speaks | A |
| What charm possesses all | B |
| And what a bloom let fall | B |
| On parted lips and eyes and flushing cheeks | A |
| The flattering whisper and the trivial word | C |
| No longer heard | C |
| The hearts of women listen deeply stirred | C |
| For now to each those quivering accents seem | D |
| A secret telling for her ear alone | E |
| The child sits wondering in a world foreknown | E |
| And the old nod their heads with springing tear | F |
| Confirming true that acted dream | D |
| And the soul of each to itself revealed | G |
| Feels to the voice a voice reply | H |
| With a leaping wonder a joy a fear | I |
| It is I it is I | H |
| But O what radiant mirror is this that dazzles me | J |
| That my dead rapture holds | K |
| That all my joy unfolds | K |
| That sets my longing free | J |
| My sighs renumbers my old hope renews | L |
| I have lived in a sleep I have tasted alien bread | M |
| I have spoken the speech and worn the robes of the dead | M |
| I have buried my heart away and none believed | N |
| But now speak on and my bonds untie | H |
| At last it is I it is I | H |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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