Love Among The Ruins Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGH A IIIIJJIIKKLL A IIIIMMNNOOPP IIQQIIRRQQII IIEESSTTUU QQIIVVQQIIWW XX IIIIYYQQI | A |
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Where the quiet coloured end of evening smiles | B |
Miles and miles | B |
On the solitary pastures where our sheep | C |
Half asleep | C |
Tinkle homeward thro' the twilight stray or stop | D |
As they crop | D |
Was the site once of a city great and gay | E |
So they say | E |
Of our country's very capital its prince | F |
Ages since | F |
Held his court in gathered councils wielding far | G |
Peace or war | H |
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II | A |
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Now the country does not even boast a tree | I |
As you see | I |
To distinguish slopes of verdure certain rills | I |
From the hills | I |
Intersect and give a name to else they run | J |
Into one | J |
Where the domed and daring palace shot its spires | I |
Up like fires | I |
O'er the hundred gated circuit of a wall | K |
Bounding all | K |
Made of marble men might march on nor be prest | L |
Twelve abreast | L |
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III | A |
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And such plenty and perfection see of grass | I |
Never was | I |
Such a carpet as this summer time o'erspreads | I |
And embeds | I |
Every vestige of the city guessed alone | M |
Stock or stone | M |
Where a multitude of men breathed joy and woe | N |
Long ago | N |
Lust of glory pricked their hearts up dread of shame | O |
Struck them tame | O |
And that glory and that shame alike the gold | P |
Bought and sold | P |
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IV | - |
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Now the single little turret that remains | I |
On the plains | I |
By the caper overrooted by the gourd | Q |
Overscored | Q |
While the patching houseleek's head of blossom winks | I |
Through the chinks | I |
Marks the basement whence a tower in ancient time | R |
Sprang sublime | R |
And a burning ring all round the chariots traced | Q |
As they raced | Q |
And the monarch and his minions and his dames | I |
Viewed the games | I |
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V | - |
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And I know while thus the quiet coloured eve | - |
Smiles to leave | - |
To their folding all our many tinkling fleece | I |
In such peace | I |
And the slopes and rills in undistinguished grey | E |
Melt away | E |
That a girl with eager eyes and yellow hair | S |
Waits me there | S |
In the turret whence the charioteers caught soul | T |
For the goal | T |
When the king looked where she looks now breathless dumb | U |
Till I come | U |
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VI | - |
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But he looked upon the city every side | Q |
Far and wide | Q |
All the mountains topped with temples all the glades' | I |
Colonnades | I |
All the causeys bridges aqueducts and then | V |
All the men | V |
When I do come she will speak not she will stand | Q |
Either hand | Q |
On my shoulder give her eyes the first embrace | I |
Of my face | I |
Ere we rush ere we extinguish sight and speech | W |
Each on each | W |
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VII | - |
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In one year they sent a million fighters forth | X |
South and north | X |
And they built their gods a brazen pillar high | - |
As the sky | - |
Yet reserved a thousand chariots in full force | I |
Gold of course | I |
Oh heart oh blood that freezes blood that burns | I |
Earth's returns | I |
For whole centuries of folly noise and sin | Y |
Shut them in | Y |
With their triumphs and their glories and the rest | Q |
Love is best | Q |
Robert Browning
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