De Hortis Julii Martialis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDAAEFAAGHIIJJ KDLLFEMMNN| MY Martial owns a garden famed to please | A |
| Beyond the glades of the Hesperides | A |
| Along Janiculum lies the chosen block | B |
| Where the cool grottos trench the hanging rock | B |
| The moderate summit something plain and bare | C |
| Tastes overhead of a serener air | C |
| And while the clouds besiege the vales below | D |
| Keeps the clear heaven and doth with sunshine glow | D |
| To the June stars that circle in the skies | A |
| The dainty roofs of that tall villa rise | A |
| Hence do the seven imperial hills appear | E |
| And you may view the whole of Rome from here | F |
| Beyond the Alban and the Tuscan hills | A |
| And the cool groves and the cool falling rills | A |
| Rubre Fidenae and with virgin blood | G |
| Anointed once Perenna's orchard wood | H |
| Thence the Flaminian the Salarian way | I |
| Stretch far broad below the dome of day | I |
| And lo the traveller toiling towards his home | J |
| And all unheard the chariot speeds to Rome | J |
| For here no whisper of the wheels and tho' | K |
| The Mulvian Bridge above the Tiber's flow | D |
| Hangs all in sight and down the sacred stream | L |
| The sliding barges vanish like a dream | L |
| The seaman's shrilling pipe not enters here | F |
| Nor the rude cries of porters on the pier | E |
| And if so rare the house how rarer far | M |
| The welcome and the weal that therein are | M |
| So free the access the doors so widely thrown | N |
| You half imagine all to be your own | N |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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