Old Brompton Road Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGCHE IGJKL MENIOECPQERSETA | |
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Death is but a sleep | B |
quaint rationalization | C |
even to Revolutionaries | D |
Think of Robespierre | E |
holding his bleeding jaw | F |
or Marat outside | G |
eyeing the inscription | C |
scofula no longer distracting while | H |
tepidly emptying bath water | E |
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Dreams poetry of painting | I |
deathly pastel shades alongside | G |
granite canyons | J |
entwined with rosebuds and leaves | K |
bone horseshoes clanking in the dark | L |
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Catch basin drainage ditch | M |
upon which the raspberry | E |
parts its tendrils and | N |
human remains the loathing | I |
of the living not dead yet | O |
appropriate obscenity | E |
scrawled on one Victorian | C |
mortuary windows knocked out | P |
coffins in full view a | Q |
hand's reach away on a dare | E |
dignitaries in a pile pried loose | R |
one few years hence across | S |
the Channel sworn enemy | E |
to the French | T |
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