To Charles Dickens Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGHIJKLMN OOPPQQDRSSTTOOSSUVWW XXYZA2A2OOOLLGGB2B2D D| Go then to Italy but mind | A |
| To leave the pale low France behind | A |
| Pass through that country nor ascend | B |
| The Rhine nor over Tyrol wend | B |
| Thus all at once shall rise more grand | C |
| The glories of the ancient land | C |
| Dickens how often when the air | D |
| Breath'd genially I've thought me there | D |
| And rais'd to heaven my thankful eyes | E |
| To see three spans of deep blue skies | E |
| In Genoa now I hear a stir | F |
| A shout Here comes the Minister | F |
| Yes thou art he although not sent | G |
| By cabinet or parliament | H |
| Yes thou art he Since Milton's youth | I |
| Bloom'd in the Eden of the South | J |
| Spirit so pure and lofty none | K |
| Hath heavenly Genius from his throne | L |
| Deputed on the banks of Thames | M |
| To speak his voice and urge his claims | N |
| Let every nation know from thee | O |
| How less than lovely Italy | O |
| Is the whole world beside let all | P |
| Into their grateful breasts recall | P |
| How Prospero and Miranda dwelt | Q |
| In Italy the griefs that melt | Q |
| The stoniest heart each sacred tear | D |
| One lacrymatory gathered here | R |
| All Desdemona's all that fell | S |
| In playful Juliet's bridal cell | S |
| Ah could my steps in life's decline | T |
| Accompany or follow thine | T |
| But my own vines are not for me | O |
| To prune or from afar to see | O |
| I miss the tales I used to tell | S |
| With cordial Hare and joyous Gell | S |
| And that good old Archbishop whose | U |
| Cool library at evening's close | V |
| Soon as from Ischia swept the gale | W |
| And heav'd and left the dark'ning sail | W |
| Its lofty portal open'd wide | X |
| To me and very few beside | X |
| Yet large his kindness Still the poor | Y |
| Flock round Taranto's palace door | Z |
| And find no other to replace | A2 |
| The noblest of a noble race | A2 |
| Amid our converse you would see | O |
| Each with white cat upon his knee | O |
| And flattering that grand company | O |
| For Persian kings might proudly own | L |
| Such glorious cats to share the throne | L |
| Write me few letters I'm content | G |
| With what for all the world is meant | G |
| Write then for all but since my breast | B2 |
| Is far more faithful than the rest | B2 |
| Never shall any other share | D |
| With little Nelly nestling there | D |
Walter Savage Landor
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