Fragment Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG| There was a time when I thought much of Fame | A |
| And laid the golden edifice to be | B |
| That in the clear light of eternity | B |
| Should fitly house the glory of my name | A |
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| But swifter than my fingers pushed their plan | C |
| Over the fair foundation scarce begun | D |
| While I with lovers dallied in the sun | D |
| The ivy clambered and the rose vine ran | C |
| - | |
| And now too late to see my vision rise | E |
| In place of golden pinnacles and towers | F |
| Only some sunny mounds of leaves and flowers | F |
| Only beloved of birds and butterflies | E |
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| My friends were duped my favorers deceived | G |
| But sometimes musing sorrowfully there | H |
| That flowered wreck has seemed to me so fair | H |
| I scarce regret the temple unachieved | G |
Alan Seeger
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