Imagination Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD ECECFAFA EGEGAHIH| A gaunt and hoary slab of stone | A |
| I found in desert place | B |
| And wondered why it lay alone | A |
| In that abandoned place | B |
| Said I 'Maybe a Palace stood | C |
| Where now the lizards crawl | D |
| With courts of musky quietude | C |
| And turrets tall | D |
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| Maybe where low the vultures wing | E |
| 'Mid mosque and minaret | C |
| The proud pavilion of a King | E |
| Was luminously set | C |
| 'Mid fairy fountains alcoves dim | F |
| Upon a garnet throne | A |
| He ruled and now all trace of him | F |
| Is just this stone | A |
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| Ah well I've done with wandering | E |
| But from a blousy bar | G |
| I see with drunk imagining | E |
| A Palace like a star | G |
| I build it up from one grey stone | A |
| With gardens hanging high | H |
| And dream Long long ere Babylon | I |
| It's King was I | H |
Robert Service
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