The Tower Of Famine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA BCB CDC DED EFE FGF GHGH| Amid the desolation of a city | A |
| Which was the cradle and is now the grave | B |
| Of an extinguished people so that Pity | A |
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| Weeps o er the shipwrecks of Oblivion s wave | B |
| There stands the Tower of Famine It is built | C |
| Upon some prison homes whose dwellers rave | B |
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| For bread and gold and blood Pain linked to Guilt | C |
| Agitates the light flame of their hours | D |
| Until its vital oil is spent or spilt | C |
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| There stands the pile a tower amid the towers | D |
| And sacred domes each marble ribbed roof | E |
| The brazen gated temples and the bowers | D |
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| Of solitary wealth the tempest proof | E |
| Pavilions of the dark Italian air | F |
| Are by its presence dimmed they stand aloof | E |
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| And are withdrawn so that the world is bare | F |
| As if a spectre wrapped in shapeless terror | G |
| Amid a company of ladies fair | F |
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| Should glide and glow till it became a mirror | G |
| Of all their beauty and their hair and hue | H |
| The life of their sweet eyes with all its error | G |
| Should be absorbed till they to marble grew | H |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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