Rhymes On The Road. Extract Iv. Milan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EEFGFFGHIHI JKJKJLJLMNONPPQQJJKK RRSSNQNQ| The Picture Gallery Albano's Rape of Proserpine Reflections Universal Salvation Abraham sending away Agar by Guercino Genius | A |
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| Went to the Brera saw a Dance of Loves | B |
| By smooth ALBANO him whose pencil teems | C |
| With Cupids numerous as in summer groves | D |
| The leaflets are or motes in summer beams | C |
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| 'Tis for the theft of Enna's flower from earth | E |
| These urchins celebrate their dance of mirth | E |
| Round the green tree like fays upon a heath | F |
| Those that are nearest linkt in order bright | G |
| Cheek after cheek like rose buds in a wreath | F |
| And those more distant showing from beneath | F |
| The others' wings their little eyes of light | G |
| While see among the clouds their eldest brother | H |
| But just flown up tells with a smile of bliss | I |
| This prank of Pluto to his charmed mother | H |
| Who turns to greet the tidings with a kiss | I |
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| Well might the Loves rejoice and well did they | J |
| Who wove these fables picture in their weaving | K |
| That blessed truth which in a darker day | J |
| ORIGEN lost his saintship for believing | K |
| That Love eternal Love whose fadeless ray | J |
| Nor time nor death nor sin can overcast | L |
| Even to the depths of hell will find his way | J |
| And soothe and heal and triumph there at last | L |
| GUERCINO'S Agar where the bondmaid hears | M |
| From Abram's lips that he and she must part | N |
| And looks at him with eyes all full of tears | O |
| That seem the very last drops from her heart | N |
| Exquisite picture let me not be told | P |
| Of minor faults of coloring tame and cold | P |
| If thus to conjure up a face so fair | Q |
| So full of sorrow with the story there | Q |
| Of all that woman suffers when the stay | J |
| Her trusting heart hath leaned on falls away | J |
| If thus to touch the bosom's tenderest spring | K |
| By calling into life such eyes as bring | K |
| Back to our sad remembrance some of those | R |
| We've smiled and wept with in their joys and woes | R |
| Thus filling them with tears like tears we've known | S |
| Till all the pictured grief becomes our own | S |
| If this be deemed the victory of Art | N |
| If thus by pen or pencil to lay bare | Q |
| The deep fresh living fountains of the heart | N |
| Before all eyes be Genius it is there | Q |
Thomas Moore
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