Ruins Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGFBHBH BGBEIJIJ AKAKLMLM| Ruins in Rome are four a penny | A |
| And here along the Appian Way | B |
| I see the monuments of many | A |
| Esteemed almighty in their day | B |
| Or so he makes me understand | C |
| My glib guide of the rubber bus | D |
| And tells me with a gesture grand | C |
| Behold the tomb of Romulus | D |
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| Whereat I stared with eyes of awe | E |
| And yet a whit dismayed was I | F |
| When on its crumbling wall I saw | G |
| A washing hanging out to dry | F |
| Yea that relict of slow decay | B |
| With peristyle and gnarly frieze | H |
| Was garnished with a daft display | B |
| Of bifurcation and chemise | H |
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| But as we went our Southward way | B |
| Another ruin soon I saw | G |
| No antique tower gaunt and grey | B |
| But modern manor rubbled raw | E |
| And on its sill a maiden sat | I |
| And told me in a tone of rue | J |
| It was your allied bombs did that | I |
| But do not think we're blaming you | J |
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| Thought I Time is more kind than we | A |
| Who blot out beauty with a blow | K |
| And truly it was sad to see | A |
| A gracious mansion levelled low | K |
| While moulderings of ancient Rome | L |
| Still serve the peasants for their swine | M |
| We do not leave a lovely home | L |
| A wall to hang a washing line | M |
Robert Service
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