News From Babylon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCDDEE FFGG HHFFIIJJKK LMNN CC| Archaeologists have discovered a love letter among the ruins | A |
| of Babylon Newspaper report | B |
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| The world hath just one tale to tell and it is very old | C |
| A little tale a simple tale a tale that's easy told | C |
| There was a youth in Babylon who greatly loved a maid | D |
| The world hath just one song to sing but sings it unafraid | D |
| A little song a foolish song the only song it hath | E |
| There was a youth in Ascalon who loved a girl in Gath | E |
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| Homer clanged it Omar twanged it Greece and Persia knew | F |
| Nimrod's reivers Hiram's weavers Hindu Kurd and Jew | F |
| Crowning Tyre Troy afire they have dreamed the dream | G |
| Tiber side and Nilus tide brightened with the gleam | G |
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| Oh the suing sighing wooing sad and merry hours | H |
| Blisses tasted kisses wasted building Babel's towers | H |
| Hearts were aching hearts were breaking lashes wet with dew | F |
| When the ships touched the lips of islands Sappho knew | F |
| Yearning breasts and burning breasts cold at last are hid | I |
| Amid the glooms of carven tombs in Khufu's pyramid | I |
| Though the sages down the ages smile their cynic doubt | J |
| Man and maid unafraid put the schools to rout | J |
| Seek to chain love and retain love in the bonds of breath | K |
| Vow to hold love bind and fold love even unto death | K |
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| The dust of forty centuries has buried Babylon | L |
| And out of all her lovers dead rises only one | M |
| Rises with a song to sing and laughter in his eyes | N |
| The old song the only song for all the rest are lies | N |
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| For oh the world has just one dream and it is very old | C |
| 'Tis youth's dream a silly dream but it is flushed with gold | C |
Don Marquis
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