Rhymes On The Road. Extract Xii. Florence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHHIJIJKLALMMNN OOHHPQRQSTSTUVUVTT WNWNAXKYSZSA2AALSLSO OTB2TB2TTTTC2D2 E2F2E2F2OG2OH2| Music in Italy Disappointed by it Recollections or other Times and Friends Dalton Sir John Stevenson His Daughter Musical Evenings together | A |
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| If it be true that Music reigns | B |
| Supreme in ITALY'S soft shades | C |
| 'Tis like that Harmony so famous | D |
| Among the spheres which He of SAMOS | E |
| Declared had such transcendent merit | F |
| That not a soul on earth could hear it | G |
| For far as I have come from Lakes | H |
| Whose sleep the Tramontana breaks | H |
| Thro' MILAN and that land which gave | I |
| The Hero of the rainbow vest | J |
| By MINCIO'S banks and by that wave | I |
| Which made VERONA'S bard so blest | J |
| Places that like the Attic shore | K |
| Which rung back music when the sea | L |
| Struck on its marge should be all o'er | A |
| Thrilling alive with melody | L |
| I've heard no music not a note | M |
| Of such sweet native airs as float | M |
| In my own land among the throng | N |
| And speak our nation's soul for song | N |
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| Nay even in higher walks where Art | O |
| Performs as 'twere the gardener's part | O |
| And richer if not sweeter makes | H |
| The flowers she from the wild hedge takes | H |
| Even there no voice hath charmed my ear | P |
| No taste hath won my perfect praise | Q |
| Like thine dear friend long truly dear | R |
| Thine and thy loved OLIVIA'S lays | Q |
| She always beautiful and growing | S |
| Still more so every note she sings | T |
| Like an inspired young Sibyl glowing | S |
| With her own bright imaginings | T |
| And thou most worthy to be tied | U |
| In music to her as in love | V |
| Breathing that language by her side | U |
| All other language far above | V |
| Eloquent Song whose tones and words | T |
| In every heart find answering chords | T |
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| How happy once the hours we past | W |
| Singing or listening all daylong | N |
| Till Time itself seemed changed at last | W |
| To music and we lived in song | N |
| Turning the leaves of HAYDN o'er | A |
| As quick beneath her master hand | X |
| They opened all their brilliant store | K |
| Like chambers touched by fairy wand | Y |
| Or o'er the page of MOZART bending | S |
| Now by his airy warblings cheered | Z |
| Now in his mournful Requiem blending | S |
| Voices thro' which the heart was heard | A2 |
| And still to lead our evening choir | A |
| Was He invoked thy loved one's Sire | A |
| He who if aught of grace there be | L |
| In the wild notes I write or sing | S |
| First smoothed their links of harmony | L |
| And lent them charms they did not bring | S |
| He of the gentlest simplest heart | O |
| With whom employed in his sweet art | O |
| That art which gives this world of ours | T |
| A notion how they speak in heaven | B2 |
| I've past more bright and charmed hours | T |
| Than all earth's wisdom could have given | B2 |
| Oh happy days oh early friends | T |
| How Life since then hath lost its flowers | T |
| But yet tho' Time some foliage rends | T |
| The stem the Friendship still is ours | T |
| And long may it endure as green | C2 |
| And fresh as it hath always been | D2 |
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| How I have wandered from my theme | E2 |
| But where is he that could return | F2 |
| To such cold subjects from a dream | E2 |
| Thro' which these best of feelings burn | F2 |
| Not all the works of Science Art | O |
| Or Genius in this world are worth | G2 |
| One genuine sigh that from the heart | O |
| Friendship or Love draws freshly forth | H2 |
Thomas Moore
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