The Terrestrial Paradise. From Dante, Purgatorio, Xxviii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GHI EJG KLM NOP QQD RST UQD VUW XUY| Longing already to search in and round | A |
| The heavenly forest dense and living green | B |
| Which to the eyes tempered the new born day | C |
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| Withouten more delay I left the bank | D |
| Crossing the level country slowly slowly | E |
| Over the soil that everywhere breathed fragrance | F |
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| A gently breathing air that no mutation | G |
| Had in itself smote me upon the forehead | H |
| No heavier blow than of a pleasant breeze | I |
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| Whereat the tremulous branches readily | E |
| Did all of them bow downward towards that side | J |
| Where its first shadow casts the Holy Mountain | G |
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| Yet not from their upright direction bent | K |
| So that the little birds upon their tops | L |
| Should cease the practice of their tuneful art | M |
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| But with full throated joy the hours of prime | N |
| Singing received they in the midst of foliage | O |
| That made monotonous burden to their rhymes | P |
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| Even as from branch to branch it gathering swells | Q |
| Through the pine forests on the shore of Chiassi | Q |
| When Aeolus unlooses the Sirocco | D |
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| Already my slow steps had led me on | R |
| Into the ancient wood so far that I | S |
| Could see no more the place where I had entered | T |
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| And lo my farther course cut off a river | U |
| Which towards the left hand with its little waves | Q |
| Bent down the grass that on its margin sprang | D |
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| All waters that on earth most limpid are | V |
| Would seem to have within themselves some mixture | U |
| Compared with that which nothing doth conceal | W |
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| Although it moves on with a brown brown current | X |
| Under the shade perpetual that never | U |
| Ray of the sun lets in nor of the moon | Y |
William Henry Giles Kingston
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