Fragments Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NOHO EHPH QRQR SKMK THTH UVUW XYXY ZA2ZA2 B2C2C2C2 D2E2D2E2 F2C2F2C2

Troy Town is covered up with weedsA
The rabbits and the pismires broodB
On broken gold and shards and beadsA
Where Priam's ancient palace stoodC
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The floors of many a gallant houseD
Are matted with the roots of grassE
The glow worm and the nimble mouseD
Among her ruins flit and passE
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And there in orts of blackened boneF
The widowed Trojan beauties lieG
And Simois babbles over stoneF
And waps and gurgles to the skyG
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Once there were merry days in TroyH
Her chimneys smoked with cooking mealsI
The passing chariots did annoyH
The sunning housewives at their wheelsI
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And many a lovely Trojan maidJ
Set Trojan lads to lovely thingsK
The game of life was nobly playedJ
They played the game like Queens and KingsK
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So that when Troy had greatly passedL
In one red roaring fiery coalM
The courts the Grecians overcastL
Became a city in the soulM
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In some green island of the seaN
Where now the shadowy coral growsO
In pride and pomp and emperyH
The courts of old Atlantis roseO
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In many a glittering house of glassE
The Atlanteans wandered thereH
The paleness of their faces wasP
Like ivory so pale they wereH
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And hushed they were no noise of wordsQ
In those bright cities ever rangR
Only their thoughts like golden birdsQ
About their chambers thrilled and sangR
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They knew all wisdom for they knewS
The souls of those Egyptian KingsK
Who learned in ancient BabiluM
The beauty of immortal thingsK
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They knew all beauty when they thoughtT
The air chimed like a stricken lyreH
The elemental birds were wroughtT
The golden birds became a fireH
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And straight to busy camps and martsU
The singing flames were swiftly goneV
The trembling leaves of human heartsU
Hid boughs for them to perch uponW
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And men in desert places menX
Abandoned broken sick with fearsY
Rose singing swung their swords agenX
And laughed and died among the spearsY
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The green and greedy seas have drownedZ
That city's glittering walls and towersA2
Her sunken minarets are crownedZ
With red and russet water flowersA2
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In towers and rooms and golden courtsB2
The shadowy coral lifts her spraysC2
The scrawl hath gorged her broken ortsC2
The shark doth haunt her hidden waysC2
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But at the falling of the tideD2
The golden birds still sing and gleamE2
The Atlanteans have not diedD2
Immortal things still give us dreamE2
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The dream that fires man's heart to makeF2
To build to do to sing or sayC2
A beauty Death can never takeF2
An Adam from the crumbled clayC2

John Masefield



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