Rhymes On The Road. Extract Xii. Florence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHHIJIJKLALMMNN OOHHPQRQSTSTUVUVTT WNWNAXKYSZSA2AALSLSO OTB2TB2TTTTC2D2 E2F2E2F2OG2OH2Music 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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