Ballade Of Cleopatra's Needle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBDED AEAEEDED AEABEDED F EDED| Ye giant shades of RA and TUM | A |
| Ye ghosts of gods Egyptian | B |
| If murmurs of our planet come | A |
| To exiles in the precincts wan | C |
| Where fetish or Olympian | B |
| To help or harm no more ye list | D |
| Look down if look ye may and scan | E |
| This monument in London mist | D |
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| Behold the hieroglyphs are dumb | A |
| That once were read of him that ran | E |
| When seistron cymbal trump and drum | A |
| Wild music of the Bull began | E |
| When through the chanting priestly clan | E |
| Walk'd Ramses and the high sun kiss'd | D |
| This stone with blessing scored and ban | E |
| This monument in London mist | D |
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| The stone endures though gods be numb | A |
| Though human effort plot and plan | E |
| Be sifted drifted like the sum | A |
| Of sands in wastes Arabian | B |
| What king may deem him more than man | E |
| What priest says Faith can Time resist | D |
| While THIS endures to mark their span | E |
| This monument in London mist | D |
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| ENVOY | F |
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| Prince the stone's shade on your divan | E |
| Falls it is longer than ye wist | D |
| It preaches as Time's gnomon can | E |
| This monument in London mist | D |
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