At Rome Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBAA DDDEEEEF FFCCAAGGHHIIJJEKLLMM NNOOPPFFFQQOOAAARR| O richly soiled and richly sunned | A |
| Exuberant fervid and fecund | A |
| Is this the fixed condition | B |
| On which may Northern pilgrim come | C |
| To imbibe thine ether air and sum | C |
| Thy store of old tradition | B |
| Must we be chill if clean and stand | A |
| Foot deep in dirt on classic land | A |
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| So is it in all ages so | D |
| And in all places man can know | D |
| From homely roots unseen below | D |
| The stem in forest field and bower | E |
| Derives the emanative power | E |
| That crowns it with the ethereal flower | E |
| From mixtures foetid foul and sour | E |
| Draws juices that those petals fill | F |
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| Ah Nature if indeed thy will | F |
| Thou own'st it it shall not be ill | F |
| And truly here in this quick clime | C |
| Where scarcely bound by space or time | C |
| The elements in half a day | A |
| Toss off with exquisitest play | A |
| What our cold seasons toil and grieve | G |
| And never quite at last achieve | G |
| Where processes with pain and fear | H |
| Disgust and horror wrought appear | H |
| The quick mutations of a dance | I |
| Wherein retiring but to advance | I |
| Life in brief interpause of death | J |
| One moment sitting taking breath | J |
| Forth comes again as glad as e'er | E |
| In some new figure full as fair | K |
| Where what has scarcely ceased to be | L |
| Instinct with newer birth we see | L |
| What dies already look you lives | M |
| In such a clime who thinks forgives | M |
| Who sees will understand who knows | N |
| In calm of knowledge find repose | N |
| And thoughtful as of glory gone | O |
| So too of more to come anon | O |
| Of permanent existence sure | P |
| Brief intermediate breaks endure | P |
| O Nature if indeed thy will | F |
| Thou ownest it it is not ill | F |
| And e'en as oft on heathy hill | F |
| On moorland black and ferny fells | Q |
| Beside thy brooks and in thy dells | Q |
| Was welcomed erst the kindly stain | O |
| Of thy true earth e'en so again | O |
| With resignation fair and meet | A |
| The dirt and refuse of thy street | A |
| My philosophic foot shall greet | A |
| So leave but perfect to my eye | R |
| Thy columns set against thy sky | R |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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