Central American Antiquities In South Kensington Museum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABC ADC EFF EFF GHI GHI JKF JKF LMF LMF NOP NOP

'Youth and crabbed ageA
Cannot live together 'B
So they sayC
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On this little pageA
See you when and whetherD
That they mayC
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Age was very oldE
Stones from ChichimecF
Hardly wrungF
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Youth had hair of goldE
Knotted on her neckF
Fair and youngF
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Age was carved with oddG
Slaves and priests that slew themH
God and BeastI
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Man and Beast and GodG
There she sat and drew themH
King and PriestI
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There she sat and drewJ
Many a monstrous headK
And antiqueF
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Horrors from PeruJ
HUACAS doubly deadK
Dead caciqueF
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Ere Pizarro cameL
These were lords of menM
Long agoF
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Gods without a nameL
Born or how or whenM
None may knowF
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Now from YucatanN
These doth Science bearO
Over seasP
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And methinks a manN
Finds youth doubly fairO
Sketching theseP

Andrew Lang



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