Music At The Villa Marina Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDC EFGHGF IJJIIJJI KLFKLF| FOR some abiding central source of power | A |
| Strong smitten steady chords ye seem to flow | B |
| And flowing carry virtue Far below | B |
| The vain tumultuous passions of the hour | A |
| Fleet fast and disappear and as the sun | C |
| Shines on the wake of tempests there is cast | D |
| O'er all the shattered ruins of my past | D |
| A strong contentment as of battles won | C |
| - | |
| And yet I cry in anguish as I hear | E |
| The long drawn pageant of your passage roll | F |
| Magnificently forth into the night | G |
| To yon fair land ye come from to yon sphere | H |
| Of strength and love where now ye shape your flight | G |
| O even wings of music bear my soul | F |
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| Ye have the power if but ye had the will | I |
| Strong smitten steady chords in sequence grand | J |
| To bear me forth into that tranquil land | J |
| Where good is no more ravelled up with ill | I |
| Where she and I remote upon some hill | I |
| Or by some quiet river's windless strand | J |
| May live and love and wander hand in hand | J |
| And follow nature simply and be still | I |
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| From this grim world where sadly prisoned we | K |
| Sit bound with others' heart strings as with chains | L |
| And if one moves all suffer to that Goal | F |
| If such a land if such a sphere there be | K |
| Thither from life and all life's joys and pains | L |
| O even wings of music bear my soul | F |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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