The City In The Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBCDCDEE FFGGGHHCCIII EEJJFF KKEELLMMGGNO JJPPQQRRSTTT| Lo Death has reared himself a throne | A |
| In a strange city lying alone | A |
| Far down within the dim West | B |
| Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best | B |
| Have gone to their eternal rest | B |
| There shrines and palaces and towers | C |
| Time eaten towers and tremble not | D |
| Resemble nothing that is ours | C |
| Around by lifting winds forgot | D |
| Resignedly beneath the sky | E |
| The melancholy waters lie | E |
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| No rays from the holy Heaven come down | F |
| On the long night time of that town | F |
| But light from out the lurid sea | G |
| Streams up the turrets silently | G |
| Gleams up the pinnacles far and free | G |
| Up domes up spires up kingly halls | H |
| Up fanes up Babylon like walls | H |
| Up shadowy long forgotten bowers | C |
| Of sculptured ivy and stone flowers | C |
| Up many and many a marvellous shrine | I |
| Whose wreathed friezes intertwine | I |
| The viol the violet and the vine | I |
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| Resignedly beneath the sky | E |
| The melancholy waters lie | E |
| So blend the turrets and shadows there | J |
| That all seem pendulous in air | J |
| While from a proud tower in the town | F |
| Death looks gigantically down | F |
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| There open fanes and gaping graves | K |
| Yawn level with the luminous waves | K |
| But not the riches there that lie | E |
| In each idol's diamond eye | E |
| Not the gaily jewelled dead | L |
| Tempt the waters from their bed | L |
| For no ripples curl alas | M |
| Along that wilderness of glass | M |
| No swellings tell that winds may be | G |
| Upon some far off happier sea | G |
| No heavings hint that winds have been | N |
| On seas less hideously serene | O |
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| But lo a stir is in the air | J |
| The wave there is a movement there | J |
| As if the towers had thrust aside | P |
| In slightly sinking the dull tide | P |
| As if their tops had feebly given | Q |
| A void within the filmy Heaven | Q |
| The waves have now a redder glow | R |
| The hours are breathing faint and low | R |
| And when amid no earthly moans | S |
| Down down that town shall settle hence | T |
| Hell rising from a thousand thrones | T |
| Shall do it reverence | T |
Edgar Allan Poe
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