A Roman Aqueduct Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH AIAJ KLKL IMIM NOCO| THE sun browned girl whose limbs recline | A |
| When noon her languid hand has laid | B |
| Hot on the green flakes of the pine | A |
| Beneath its narrow disk of shade | B |
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| As through the flickering noontide glare | C |
| She gazes on the rainbow chain | D |
| Of arches lifting once in air | C |
| The rivers of the Roman's plain | D |
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| Say does her wandering eye recall | E |
| The mountain current's icy wave | F |
| Or for the dead one tear let fall | E |
| Whose founts are broken by their grave | F |
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| From stone to stone the ivy weaves | G |
| Her braided tracery's winding veil | H |
| And lacing stalks and tangled leaves | G |
| Nod heavy in the drowsy gale | H |
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| And lightly floats the pendent vine | A |
| That swings beneath her slender bow | I |
| Arch answering arch whose rounded line | A |
| Seems mirrored in the wreath below | J |
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| How patient Nature smiles at Fame | K |
| The weeds that strewed the victor's way | L |
| Feed on his dust to shroud his name | K |
| Green where his proudest towers decay | L |
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| See through that channel empty now | I |
| The scanty rain its tribute pours | M |
| Which cooled the lip and laved the brow | I |
| Of conquerors from a hundred shores | M |
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| Thus bending o'er the nation's bier | N |
| Whose wants the captive earth supplied | O |
| The dew of Memory's passing tear | C |
| Falls on the arches of her pride | O |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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