Love Among The Ruins Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGH A IIIIJJIIKKLL A IIIIMMNNOOPP IIQQIIRRQQII IIEESSTTUU QQIIVVQQIIWW XX IIIIYYQQ

IA
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Where the quiet coloured end of evening smilesB
Miles and milesB
On the solitary pastures where our sheepC
Half asleepC
Tinkle homeward thro' the twilight stray or stopD
As they cropD
Was the site once of a city great and gayE
So they sayE
Of our country's very capital its princeF
Ages sinceF
Held his court in gathered councils wielding farG
Peace or warH
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IIA
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Now the country does not even boast a treeI
As you seeI
To distinguish slopes of verdure certain rillsI
From the hillsI
Intersect and give a name to else they runJ
Into oneJ
Where the domed and daring palace shot its spiresI
Up like firesI
O'er the hundred gated circuit of a wallK
Bounding allK
Made of marble men might march on nor be prestL
Twelve abreastL
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IIIA
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And such plenty and perfection see of grassI
Never wasI
Such a carpet as this summer time o'erspreadsI
And embedsI
Every vestige of the city guessed aloneM
Stock or stoneM
Where a multitude of men breathed joy and woeN
Long agoN
Lust of glory pricked their hearts up dread of shameO
Struck them tameO
And that glory and that shame alike the goldP
Bought and soldP
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IV-
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Now the single little turret that remainsI
On the plainsI
By the caper overrooted by the gourdQ
OverscoredQ
While the patching houseleek's head of blossom winksI
Through the chinksI
Marks the basement whence a tower in ancient timeR
Sprang sublimeR
And a burning ring all round the chariots tracedQ
As they racedQ
And the monarch and his minions and his damesI
Viewed the gamesI
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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 fleeceI
In such peaceI
And the slopes and rills in undistinguished greyE
Melt awayE
That a girl with eager eyes and yellow hairS
Waits me thereS
In the turret whence the charioteers caught soulT
For the goalT
When the king looked where she looks now breathless dumbU
Till I comeU
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VI-
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But he looked upon the city every sideQ
Far and wideQ
All the mountains topped with temples all the glades'I
ColonnadesI
All the causeys bridges aqueducts and thenV
All the menV
When I do come she will speak not she will standQ
Either handQ
On my shoulder give her eyes the first embraceI
Of my faceI
Ere we rush ere we extinguish sight and speechW
Each on eachW
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VII-
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In one year they sent a million fighters forthX
South and northX
And they built their gods a brazen pillar high-
As the sky-
Yet reserved a thousand chariots in full forceI
Gold of courseI
Oh heart oh blood that freezes blood that burnsI
Earth's returnsI
For whole centuries of folly noise and sinY
Shut them inY
With their triumphs and their glories and the restQ
Love is bestQ

Robert Browning



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