On Seeing 'the House Of Julia' At Herculaneum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCBBC DEFDEF| Not great Vesuvius in all his ire | A |
| Nor all the centuries could hide your shame | B |
| There is the little window where you came | B |
| With eyes that woke the demon of desire | C |
| And lips like rose leaves fashioned out of fire | C |
| And from the lava leaps the molten flame | B |
| Of your old sins The walls cry out your name | B |
| Your face seems rising from the funeral pyre | C |
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| There must have dwelt within your fated town | D |
| Full many a virtuous dame and noble wife | E |
| Who made your beauty seem as star to sun | F |
| How strange the centuries have handed down | D |
| Your name fair Julia of immoral life | E |
| And left the others to oblivion | F |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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