The Dust Dethroned Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDDECE| Sargon is dust Semiramis a clod | A |
| In crypts profaned the moon at midnight peers | B |
| The owl upon the Sphinx hoots in her ears | B |
| And scant and sear the desert grasses nod | A |
| Where once the armies of Assyria trod | A |
| With younger sunlight splendid on the spears | B |
| The lichens cling the closer with the years | B |
| And seal the eyelids of the weary god | A |
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| Where high the tombs of royal Egypt heave | C |
| The vulture shadows with arrested wings | D |
| The indecipherable boast of kings | D |
| As Arab children hear their mother's cry | E |
| And leave in mockery their toy they leave | C |
| The skull of Pharaoh staring at the sky | E |
George Sterling
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