Atlantis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEF GHIJKLLMNOPQCR KSCTUVCW| What poets sang in Atlantis Who can tell | A |
| The epics of Atlantis or their names | B |
| The sea hath its own murmurs and sounds not | C |
| The secrets of its silences beneath | D |
| And knows not any cadences enfolded | C |
| When the last bubbles of Atlantis broke | E |
| Among the quieting of its heaving floor | F |
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| O years and tides and leagues and all their billows | G |
| Can alter not man's knowledge of men's hearts | H |
| While trees and rocks and clouds include our being | I |
| We know the epics of Atlantis still | J |
| A hero gave himself to lesser men | K |
| Who first misunderstood and murdered him | L |
| And then misunderstood and worshipped him | L |
| A woman was lovely and men fought for her | M |
| Towns burnt for her and men put men in bondage | N |
| But she put lengthier bondage on them all | O |
| A wanderer toiled among all the isles | P |
| That fleck this turning star of shifting sea | Q |
| Or lonely purgatories of the mind | C |
| In longing for his home or his lost love | R |
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| Poetry is founded on the hearts of men | K |
| Though in Nirvana or the Heavenly courts | S |
| The principle of beauty shall persist | C |
| Its body of poetry as the body of man | T |
| Is but a terrene form a terrene use | U |
| That swifter being will not loiter with | V |
| And when mankind is dead and the world cold | C |
| Poetry's immortality will pass | W |
Gordon Bottomley
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