Canzone
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
Ah me! ah me! when thinking of the years,
The vanished years, alas, I do not find
Among them all one day that was my own!
Fallacious hope; desires of the unknown,
Lamenting, loving, burning, and in tears
(For human passions all have stirred my mind),
Have held me, now I feel and know, confined
Both from the true and good still far away.
I perish day by day;
The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary,
And I am near to fail, infirm and weary.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABCCDBBEEFF |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 448 |
Words | 88 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
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