The Nile Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACCDCDD| It flows through old hushed gypt and its sands | A |
| Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream | B |
| And times and things as in that vision seem | B |
| Keeping along it their eternal stands | A |
| Caves pillars pyramids the shepherd bands | A |
| That roamed through the young world the glory extreme | B |
| Of high Sesostris and that southern beam | B |
| The laughing queen that caught the world's great hands | A |
| Then comes a mightier silence stern and strong | C |
| As of a world left empty of its throng | C |
| And the void weighs on us and then we wake | D |
| And hear the fruitful stream lapsing along | C |
| Twixt villages and think how we shall take | D |
| Our own calm journey on for human sake | D |
James Henry Leigh Hunt
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