Permanence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO| Set within a desert lone | A |
| Circled by an arid sea | B |
| Stands a figure carved in stone | A |
| Where a fountain used to be | B |
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| Two abraded pleading hands | C |
| Held below a shapeless mouth | D |
| Human like the fragment stands | C |
| Tortured by perpetual drouth | D |
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| Once the form was drenched with spray | E |
| Deluged with the rainbow flushes | F |
| Surplus water dashed away | E |
| To the lotus and the rushes | G |
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| Time was clothed in rippling fashion | H |
| Opulence of light and air | I |
| Beauty changing into passion | H |
| Every hour and everywhere | I |
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| And the yearning of that race | J |
| Was for something deep and tender | K |
| Life replete with power with grace | J |
| Touched with vision and with splendour | K |
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| Now no rain dissolves and cools | L |
| Dew is even as a dream | M |
| The enticing far off pools | L |
| In a mirage only seem | M |
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| All the traces that remain | N |
| Of the longings of that land | O |
| Are two hands that plead in vain | N |
| Filled with burning sand | O |
Duncan Campbell Scott
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