The Age Of The Antonines Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFGEBB BBHBHIJKJBB LBLBJJMJBB| While faith forecasts millennial years | A |
| Spite Europe's embattled lines | B |
| Back to the Past one glance be cast | C |
| The Age of the Antonines | B |
| O summit of fate O zenith of time | D |
| When a pagan gentleman reigned | E |
| And the olive was nailed to the inn of the | F |
| world | G |
| Nor the peace of the just was feigned | E |
| A halcyon Age afar it shines | B |
| Solstice of Man and the Antonines | B |
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| Hymns to the nations' friendly gods | B |
| Went up from the fellowly shrines | B |
| No demagogue beat the pulpit drum | H |
| In the Age of the Antonines | B |
| The sting was not dreamed to be taken from | H |
| death | I |
| No Paradise pledged or sought | J |
| But they reasoned of fate at the flowing feast | K |
| Nor stifled the fluent thought | J |
| We sham we shuffle while faith declines | B |
| They were frank in the Age of the Antonines | B |
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| Orders and ranks they kept degree | L |
| Few felt how the parvenu pines | B |
| No law maker took the lawless one's fee | L |
| In the Age of the Antonines | B |
| Under law made will the world reposed | J |
| And the ruler's right confessed | J |
| For the heavens elected the Emperor then | M |
| The foremost of men the best | J |
| Ah might we read in America's signs | B |
| The Age restored of the Antonines | B |
Herman Melville
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