Provincia Deserta Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFBBGEFABEEBBAE BAHIEAJ AAJKGLJBJAMABA AAEJN AAAAEBABOB AAAA MAIJEJP J ABAEEBJ| At Rochecoart | A |
| Where the hills part | A |
| in three ways | B |
| And three valleys full of winding roads | C |
| Fork out to south and north | D |
| There is a place of trees gray with lichen | E |
| I have walked there | F |
| thinking of old days | B |
| At Chalais | B |
| is a pleached arbour | G |
| Old pensioners and old protected vomen | E |
| Have the right there | F |
| it is charity | A |
| I have crept over old rafters | B |
| peering down | E |
| Over the Dronne | E |
| over a stream full of lilies | B |
| Eastward the road lies | B |
| Aubeterre is eastward | A |
| With a garrulous old man at the inn | E |
| I know the roads in that place | B |
| Mareuil to the north east | A |
| La Tour | H |
| There are three keeps near Mareuil | I |
| And an old woman | E |
| glad to hear Arnaut | A |
| Glad to lend one dry clothing | J |
| - | |
| I have walked | A |
| into Perigord | A |
| I have seen the torch flames high leaping | J |
| Painting the front of that church | K |
| Heard under the dark whirling laughter | G |
| I have looked back over the stream | L |
| and seen the high building | J |
| Seen the long minarets the white shafts | B |
| I have gone in Ribeyrac | J |
| and in Sarlat | A |
| I have climbed rickety stairs heard talk of Croy | M |
| Walked over En Bertran's old layout | A |
| Have seen Narbonne and Cahors and Chalus | B |
| Have seen Excideuil carefully fashioned | A |
| - | |
| I have said | A |
| Here such a one walked | A |
| Here Cceur de Lion was slain | E |
| 'Here was good singing | J |
| 'Here one man hastened his step | N |
| 'Here one lay panting ' | - |
| I have looked south from Hautefort | A |
| thinking of Montaignac southward | A |
| I have lain in Rocafixada | A |
| level with sunset | A |
| Have seen the copper come down | E |
| tingeing the mountains | B |
| I have seen the fields pale clear as an emerald | A |
| Sharp peaks high spurs distant castles | B |
| I have said The old roads have lain here | O |
| 'Men have gone by such valleys | B |
| Where the great halls were closer together ' | - |
| I have seen Foix on its rock seen Toulouse and | A |
| Aries greatly altered | A |
| I have seen the ruined 'Dorata' | A |
| I have said | A |
| 'Riquier Guido ' | - |
| I have thought of the second Troy | M |
| Some little prized place in Auvergnat | A |
| Two men tossing a coin one keeping a castle | I |
| One set on the highway to sing | J |
| He sang a woman | E |
| Auvergne rose to the song | J |
| The Dauphin backed him | P |
| 'The castle to Austors ' | - |
| 'Pieire kept the singing | J |
| A fair man and a pleasant ' | - |
| He won the lady | A |
| Stole her away for himself kept her against armed force | B |
| So ends that story | A |
| That age is gone | E |
| Pieire de Maensac is gone | E |
| I have walked over these roads | B |
| I have thought of them living | J |
Ezra Pound
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