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