Nuremberg Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBD EFGFH ICJCK KKLAK FMNMO| So quiet it was in that high sun steeped room | A |
| So warm and still that sometimes with the light | B |
| Through the great windows bright with bottle panes | C |
| There d float a chime from clock jacks out of sight | B |
| Clapping iron mallets on green copper gongs | D |
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| But only in blown music from the town s | E |
| Quaint horologe could Time intrude you d say | F |
| Clocks had been bolted out the flux of years | G |
| Defied and that high chamber sealed away | F |
| From earthly change by some old alchemist | H |
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| And oh those thousand towers of Nuremberg | I |
| Flowering like leaden trees outside the panes | C |
| Those gabled roofs with smoking cowls and those | J |
| Encrusted spires of stone those golden vanes | C |
| On shining housetops paved with scarlet tiles | K |
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| And all day nine wrought pewter manticores | K |
| Blinked from their spouting faucets not five steps | K |
| Across the cobbled street or peering through | L |
| The rounds of glass espied that sun flushed room | A |
| With D rer graving at intaglios | K |
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| O happy nine spouting your dew all day | F |
| In green scaled rows of metal whilst the town | M |
| Moves peacefully below in quiet joy | N |
| O happy gargoyles to be gazing down | M |
| On Albrecht D rer and his plates of iron | O |
Kenneth Slessor
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