La Figlia Che Piange Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDCDB EEFGGHFII JKLLJMKM| O quam te memorem virgo | A |
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| Stand on the highest pavement of the stair | B |
| Lean on a garden urn | C |
| Weave weave the sunlight in your hair | B |
| Clasp your flowers to you with a pained surprise | D |
| Fling them to the ground and turn | C |
| With a fugitive resentment in your eyes | D |
| But weave weave the sunlight in your hair | B |
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| So I would have had him leave | E |
| So I would have had her stand and grieve | E |
| So he would have left | F |
| As the soul leaves the body torn and bruised | G |
| As the mind deserts the body it has used | G |
| I should find | H |
| Some way incomparably light and deft | F |
| Some way we both should understand | I |
| Simple and faithless as a smile and a shake of the hand | I |
| - | |
| She turned away but with the autumn weather | J |
| Compelled my imagination many days | K |
| Many days and many hours | L |
| Her hair over her arms and her arms full of flowers | L |
| And I wonder how they should have been together | J |
| I should have lost a gesture and a pose | M |
| Sometimes these cogitations still amaze | K |
| The troubled midnight and the noon's repose | M |
T. S. Eliot
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