S. Francesco Del Deserto Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCC ECEC CFCF GCGC CCCC HIHI CJCJ| Peace in smooth summer hour | A |
| Paces the seas awhile | B |
| But Peace has built her tower | A |
| Upon this chosen isle | B |
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| Scarcely a ripple stirs | C |
| In this lone shore's recess | D |
| Scarcely a motion blurs | C |
| The mirrored cypresses | C |
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| Ranked on a crumbling wall | E |
| O'er slopes of flowery grass | C |
| Where their long shadows fall | E |
| Butterflies gleam and pass | C |
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| The idle sunshine sleeps | C |
| Before a porch within | F |
| Cool the white cloister keeps | C |
| Peace that has always been | F |
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| Beyond a tangled plot | G |
| Of garden and tall trees | C |
| Soothing its fragrance hot | G |
| In freshness from the seas | C |
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| There young monks slowly pace | C |
| With seldom lifted eyes | C |
| With world unwritten face | C |
| Not mournful yet nor wise | C |
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| Have they in this fair fold | H |
| Lost the fierce world in truth | I |
| Or must the storms of old | H |
| Still shake the heart of youth | I |
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| Far in blue northern haze | C |
| The vast Alps glimmer pale | J |
| Faint through the slumbrous blaze | C |
| Comes the white sea gull's wail | J |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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