Dead Cities Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBCDDEBBEFFGGEEEE BBHEEHBBHHIJIJBBEEEE KL| Out of it all but this remains | A |
| I was with one who crossed wide chains | A |
| Of the Cordilleras whose peaks | B |
| Lock in the wilds of Yucatan | C |
| Chiapas and Honduras Weeks | B |
| And then a city that no man | C |
| Had ever seen so dim and old | D |
| No chronicle has ever told | D |
| The history of men who piled | E |
| Its temples and huge teocallis | B |
| Among mimosa blooming valleys | B |
| Or how its altars were defiled | E |
| With human blood whose idols there | F |
| With eyes of stone still stand and stare | F |
| So old the moon can only know | G |
| How old since ancient forests grow | G |
| On mighty wall and pyramid | E |
| Huge ce bas whose trunks were scarred | E |
| With ages and dense yuccas hid | E |
| Fanes 'mid the cacti scarlet starred | E |
| I looked upon its paven ways | B |
| And saw it in its kingliest days | B |
| When from the lordly palace one | H |
| A victim walked with prince and priest | E |
| Who turned brown faces toward the east | E |
| In worship of the rising sun | H |
| At night ten hundred temples' spires | B |
| On gold burnt everlasting fires | B |
| Uxmal Palenque or Copan | H |
| I know not Only how no man | H |
| Had ever seen and still my soul | I |
| Believes it vaster than the three | J |
| Volcanic rock walled in the whole | I |
| Lost in the woods as in some sea | J |
| I only read its hieroglyphs | B |
| Perused its monster monoliths | B |
| Of death gigantic heads and read | E |
| The pictured codex of its fate | E |
| The perished Toltec while in hate | E |
| Mad monkeys cursed me as if dead | E |
| Priests of its past had taken form | K |
| To guard its ruined shrines from harm | L |
Madison Julius Cawein
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