The Buried City Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDC EFGFHH| My heart is like a city of the gay | A |
| Reared on the ruins of a perished one | B |
| Wherein my dead loves cower from the sun | B |
| White swathed like kings the Pharaohs of a day | A |
| Within the buried city stirs no sound | C |
| Save for the bat forgetful of the rod | D |
| Perched on the knee of some deserted god | D |
| And for the groan of rivers underground | C |
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| Stray not my Love 'mid the sarcophagi | E |
| Tempt not the silence for the fates are deep | F |
| Lest all the dreamers deeming doomsday nigh | G |
| Leap forth in terror from their haunted sleep | F |
| And like the peal of an accurs egrave d bell | H |
| Thy voice call ghosts of dead things back from hell | H |
George Sylvester Viereck
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