Bronze Trumpets And Sea Water - On Turning Latin Into English Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDF GHGH| Alembics turn to stranger things | A |
| Strange things but never while we live | B |
| Shall magic turn this bronze that sings | A |
| To singing water in a sieve | C |
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| The trumpets of C sar's guard | D |
| Salute his rigorous bastions | E |
| With ordered bruit the bronze is hard | D |
| Though there is silver in the bronze | F |
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| Our mutable tongue is like the sea | G |
| Curled wave and shattering thunder fit | H |
| Dangle in strings of sand shall he | G |
| Who smoothes the ripples out of it | H |
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