Babylon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDDEEFFGHGHIJKL MNNMOOPQRRSSTTGJGJGJ| If you could bring her glories back | A |
| You gentle sirs who sift the dust | B |
| And burrow in the mould and must | B |
| Of Babylon for bric a brac | A |
| Who catalogue and pigeon hole | C |
| The faded splendours of her soul | C |
| And put her greatness under glass | D |
| If you could bring her past to pass | D |
| If you could bring her dead to life | E |
| The soldier lad the market wife | E |
| Madam buying fowls from her | F |
| Tip the butcher's bandy cur | F |
| Workmen carting bricks and clay | G |
| Babel passing to and fro | H |
| On the business of a day | G |
| Gone three thousand years ago | H |
| That you cannot then be done | I |
| Put the goblet down again | J |
| Let the broken arch remain | K |
| Leave the dead men's dust alone | L |
| Is it nothing how she lies | M |
| This old mother of you all | N |
| You great cities proud and tall | N |
| Towering to a hundred skies | M |
| Round a world she never knew | O |
| Is it nothing this to you | O |
| Must the ghoulish work go on | P |
| Till her very floors are gone | Q |
| While there's still a brick to save | R |
| Drive these people from her grave | R |
| The Jewish seer when he cried | S |
| Woe to Babel's lust and pride | S |
| Saw the foxes at her gates | T |
| Once again the wild thing waits | T |
| Then leave her in her last decay | G |
| A house of owls a foxes' den | J |
| The desert that till yesterday | G |
| Hid her from the eyes of men | J |
| In its proper time and way | G |
| Will take her to itself again | J |
Ralph Hodgson
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