From "adonais," 49-52 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCDEEFEFF GHGHHIHJJ KLKLLMLNO EPEQPRPRR| A | |
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| Go thou to Rome at once the Paradise | B |
| The grave the city and the wilderness | C |
| And where its wrecks like shattered mountains rise | D |
| And flowering weeds and fragrant copses dress | E |
| The bones of Desolation's nakedness | E |
| Pass till the spirit of the spot shall lead | F |
| Thy footsteps to a slope of green access | E |
| Where like an infant's smile over the dead | F |
| A light of laughing flowers along the grass is spread | F |
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| And gray walls moulder round on which dull Time | G |
| Feeds like slow fire upon a hoary brand | H |
| And one keen pyramid with wedge sublime | G |
| Pavilioning the dust of him who planned | H |
| This refuge for his memory doth stand | H |
| Like flame transformed to marble and beneath | I |
| A field is spread on which a newer band | H |
| Have pitched in Heaven's smile their camp of death | J |
| Welcoming him we lose with scarce extinguished breath | J |
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| Here pause these graves are all too young as yet | K |
| To have outgrown the sorrow which consigned | L |
| Its charge to each and if the seal is set | K |
| Here on one fountain of a mourning mind | L |
| Break it not thou too surely shalt thou find | L |
| Thine own well full if thou returnest home | M |
| Of tears and gall From the world's bitter wind | L |
| Seek shelter in the shadow of the tomb | N |
| What Adonais is why fear we to become | O |
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| The One remains the many change and pass | E |
| Heaven's light forever shines Earth's shadows fly | P |
| Life like a dome of many coloured glass | E |
| Stains the white radiance of Eternity | Q |
| Until Death tramples it to fragments Die | P |
| If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek | R |
| Follow where all is fled Rome's azure sky | P |
| Flowers ruins statues music words are weak | R |
| The glory they transfuse with fitting truth to speak | R |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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