Babylon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ| The blue dusk ran between the streets my love was winged within my mind | A |
| It left to day and yesterday and thrice a thousand years behind | A |
| To day was past and dead for me for from to day my feet had run | B |
| Through thrice a thousand years to walk the ways of ancient Babylon | C |
| On temple top and palace roof the burnished gold flung back the rays | D |
| Of a red sunset that was dead and lost beyond a million days | D |
| The tower of heaven turns darker blue a starry sparkle now begins | E |
| The mystery and magnificence the myriad beauty and the sins | E |
| Come back to me I walk beneath the shadowy multitude of towers | F |
| Within the gloom the fountain jets its pallid mist in lily flowers | F |
| The waters lull me and the scent of many gardens and I hear | G |
| Familiar voices and the voice I love is whispering in my ear | G |
| Oh real as in dream all this and then a hand on mine is laid | H |
| The wave of phantom time withdraws and that young Babylonian maid | H |
| One drop of beauty left behind from all the flowing of that tide | I |
| Is looking with the self same eyes and here in Ireland by my side | I |
| Oh light our life in Babylon but Babylon has taken wings | J |
| While we are in the calm and proud procession of eternal things | J |
George William Russell
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