Genoa And The Mediterranean. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC AAA AAA AAAO epic famed god haunted Central Sea | A |
Heave careless of the deep wrong done to thee | A |
When from Torino's track I saw thy face first flash on me | A |
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And multimarbled Genova the Proud | B |
Gleam all unconscious how wide lipped up browed | B |
I first beheld thee clad not as the Beauty but the Dowd | B |
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Out from a deep delved way my vision lit | C |
On housebacks pink green ochreous where a slit | C |
Shoreward 'twixt row and row revealed the classic blue through it | C |
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And thereacross waved fishwives' high hung smocks | A |
Chrome kerchiefs scarlet hose darned underfrocks | A |
Since when too oft my dreams of thee O Queen that frippery mocks | A |
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Whereat I grieve Superba Afterhours | A |
Within Palazzo Doria's orange bowers | A |
Went far to mend these marrings of thy soul subliming powers | A |
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But Queen such squalid undress none should see | A |
Those dream endangering eyewounds no more be | A |
Where lovers first behold thy form in pilgrimage to thee | A |
Thomas Hardy
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