In its thirteenth stanza, the speaker notes that while "butterflies may dread extinction", the addressee will "not die, it cannot be!"
The speaker of this poem mentions Death taking people to "where they never see the sun". In its thirteenth stanza, the speaker notes that while "butterflies may dread extinction", the addressee will "not die, it cannot be!" The entry of this poem's addressee is compared to that of "a ghostly cricket, creaking where a house was burned". Its speaker tells the addressee that although the soul is immortal, he can still picture the decaying city where the addressee lived, and asks "What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop." At the start of this poem, however, the speaker imagines the same city at its peak of glory, describing it as "where St. Mark's is, where the Doges used to wed the sea with rings." This poem is written in rhyming triplets of trochaic octameter, reflecting the difficulty of the piece for which it is named. It opens by telling the addressee "this is very sad to find!" and later describes that man as sitting "stately at the clavichord". For 10 points, identify this Robert Browning poem titled in part for a Venetian composer.
The speaker of this poem mentions Death taking people to "where they never see the sun".
"A Toccata of Galuppi's"