Fragments Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NOHO EHPH QRQR SKMK THTH UVUW XYXY ZA2ZA2 B2C2C2C2 D2E2D2E2 F2C2F2C2Troy Town is covered up with weeds | A |
The rabbits and the pismires brood | B |
On broken gold and shards and beads | A |
Where Priam's ancient palace stood | C |
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The floors of many a gallant house | D |
Are matted with the roots of grass | E |
The glow worm and the nimble mouse | D |
Among her ruins flit and pass | E |
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And there in orts of blackened bone | F |
The widowed Trojan beauties lie | G |
And Simois babbles over stone | F |
And waps and gurgles to the sky | G |
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Once there were merry days in Troy | H |
Her chimneys smoked with cooking meals | I |
The passing chariots did annoy | H |
The sunning housewives at their wheels | I |
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And many a lovely Trojan maid | J |
Set Trojan lads to lovely things | K |
The game of life was nobly played | J |
They played the game like Queens and Kings | K |
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So that when Troy had greatly passed | L |
In one red roaring fiery coal | M |
The courts the Grecians overcast | L |
Became a city in the soul | M |
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In some green island of the sea | N |
Where now the shadowy coral grows | O |
In pride and pomp and empery | H |
The courts of old Atlantis rose | O |
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In many a glittering house of glass | E |
The Atlanteans wandered there | H |
The paleness of their faces was | P |
Like ivory so pale they were | H |
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And hushed they were no noise of words | Q |
In those bright cities ever rang | R |
Only their thoughts like golden birds | Q |
About their chambers thrilled and sang | R |
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They knew all wisdom for they knew | S |
The souls of those Egyptian Kings | K |
Who learned in ancient Babilu | M |
The beauty of immortal things | K |
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They knew all beauty when they thought | T |
The air chimed like a stricken lyre | H |
The elemental birds were wrought | T |
The golden birds became a fire | H |
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And straight to busy camps and marts | U |
The singing flames were swiftly gone | V |
The trembling leaves of human hearts | U |
Hid boughs for them to perch upon | W |
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And men in desert places men | X |
Abandoned broken sick with fears | Y |
Rose singing swung their swords agen | X |
And laughed and died among the spears | Y |
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The green and greedy seas have drowned | Z |
That city's glittering walls and towers | A2 |
Her sunken minarets are crowned | Z |
With red and russet water flowers | A2 |
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In towers and rooms and golden courts | B2 |
The shadowy coral lifts her sprays | C2 |
The scrawl hath gorged her broken orts | C2 |
The shark doth haunt her hidden ways | C2 |
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But at the falling of the tide | D2 |
The golden birds still sing and gleam | E2 |
The Atlanteans have not died | D2 |
Immortal things still give us dream | E2 |
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The dream that fires man's heart to make | F2 |
To build to do to sing or say | C2 |
A beauty Death can never take | F2 |
An Adam from the crumbled clay | C2 |
John Masefield
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