The Coliseum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFGA DDHIGDJ KDDALDMGN OPQGRDA RASGTUNVGWEGDA| Type of the antique Rome Rich reliquary | A |
| Of lofty contemplation left to Time | B |
| By buried centuries of pomp and power | A |
| At length at length after so many days | C |
| Of weary pilgrimage and burning thirst | D |
| Thirst for the springs of lore that in thee lie | E |
| I kneel an altered and an humble man | F |
| Amid thy shadows and so drink within | G |
| My very soul thy grandeur gloom and glory | A |
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| Vastness and Age and Memories of Eld | D |
| Silence and Desolation and dim Night | D |
| I feel ye now I feel ye in your strength | H |
| O spells more sure than e'er Judaean king | I |
| Taught in the gardens of Gethsemane | G |
| O charms more potent than the rapt Chaldee | D |
| Ever drew down from out the quiet stars | J |
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| Here where a hero fell a column falls | K |
| Here where the mimic eagle glared in gold | D |
| A midnight vigil holds the swarthy bat | D |
| Here where the dames of Rome their gilded hair | A |
| Waved to the wind now wave the reed and thistle | L |
| Here where on golden throne the monarch lolled | D |
| Glides spectre like unto his marble home | M |
| Lit by the wan light of the horned moon | G |
| The swift and silent lizard of the stones | N |
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| But stay these walls these ivy clad arcades | O |
| These mouldering plinths these sad and blackened shafts | P |
| These vague entablatures this crumbling frieze | Q |
| These shattered cornices this wreck this ruin | G |
| These stones alas these gray stones are they all | R |
| All of the famed and the colossal left | D |
| By the corrosive Hours to Fate and me | A |
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| Not all the Echoes answer me not all | R |
| Prophetic sounds and loud arise forever | A |
| From us and from all Ruin unto the wise | S |
| As melody from Memnon to the Sun | G |
| We rule the hearts of mightiest men we rule | T |
| With a despotic sway all giant minds | U |
| We are not impotent we pallid stones | N |
| Not all our power is gone not all our fame | V |
| Not all the magic of our high renown | G |
| Not all the wonder that encircles us | W |
| Not all the mysteries that in us lie | E |
| Not all the memories that hang upon | G |
| And cling around about us as a garment | D |
| Clothing us in a robe of more than glory | A |
Edgar Allan Poe
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