Loss And Waste Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDEFGFG HH| Up to far Osteroe and Suderoe | A |
| The deep sea floor lies strewn with Spanish wrecks | B |
| O'er minted gold the fair haired fishers go | C |
| O'er sunken bravery of high carv d decks | B |
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| In earlier days great Carthage suffered bale | D |
| All her waste works choke under sandy shoals | E |
| And reckless hands tore down the temple veil | D |
| And Omar burned the Alexandrian rolls | E |
| The Old World arts men suffered not to last | F |
| Flung down they trampled lie and sunk from view | G |
| He lets wild forest for these ages past | F |
| Grow over the lost cities of the New | G |
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| O for a life that shall not be refused | H |
| To see the lost things found and waste things used | H |
Jean Ingelow
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