The Lover-s Colloquy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGGFFHHII JJ KKLB LMM NNOOP PFQ| HERNANI Act V | A |
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| One little moment to indulge the sight | B |
| With the rich beauty of the summer's night | B |
| The harp is hushed and see the torch is dim | C |
| Night and ourselves together To the brim | C |
| The cup of our felicity is filled | D |
| Each sound is mute each harsh sensation stilled | D |
| Dost thou not think that e'en while nature sleeps | E |
| Some power its amorous vigils o'er us keeps | E |
| No cloud in heaven while all around repose | F |
| Come taste with me the fragrance of the rose | F |
| Which loads the night air with its musky breath | G |
| While everything is still as nature's death | G |
| E'en as you spoke and gentle words were those | F |
| Spoken by you the silver moon uprose | F |
| How that mysterious union of her ray | H |
| With your impassioned accents made its way | H |
| Straight to my heart I could have wished to die | I |
| In that pale moonlight and while thou wert by | I |
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| HERNANI Thy words are music and thy strain of love | J |
| Is borrowed from the choir of heaven above | J |
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| DONNA SOL Night is too silent darkness too profound | K |
| Oh for a star to shine a voice to sound | K |
| To raise some sudden note of music now | L |
| Suited to night | B |
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| HERN Capricious girl your vow | L |
| Was poured for silence and to be released | M |
| From the thronged tumult of the marriage feast | M |
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| DONNA SOL Yes but one bird to carol in the field | N |
| A nightingale in mossy shade concealed | N |
| A distant flute for music's stream can roll | O |
| To soothe the heart and harmonize the soul | O |
| O 'twould be bliss to listen | P |
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| Distant sound of a horn the signal that HERNANI | P |
| must go to DON RUY who having saved his | F |
| life had him bound in a vow to yield it up | Q |
Victor Marie Hugo
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