The Leaning Tower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFG HIHIEE EJEJKK LILIMM IEIENN| Having an aged hate of height | A |
| I forced myself to climb the Tower | B |
| Yet paused at every second flight | A |
| Because my heart is scant of power | B |
| Then when I gained the sloping summit | C |
| Earthward I stared straight as a plummet | C |
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| When like a phantom by my side | D |
| I saw a man cadaverous | E |
| At first I fancied him a guide | D |
| For dimly he addressed me thus | E |
| Sir where you stand Oh long ago | F |
| There also stood Galilleo | G |
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| Proud Master of a mighty mind | H |
| he worshipped truth and knew not fear | I |
| Aye though in age his eyes were blind | H |
| Till death his brain was crystal clear | I |
| And here he communed with the stars | E |
| Where now you park your motor cars | E |
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| This Pisa was a pleasant place | E |
| Beloved by poets in their prime | J |
| Yonder our Shelly used to pace | E |
| And Byron ottavas would rhyme | J |
| Till Shelley from this fair environ | K |
| Scrammed to escape egregious Byron | K |
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| And you who with the horde have come | L |
| I hate your guts I say with candour | I |
| Your wife wears slacks and you chew gum | L |
| So I the ghost of Savage Landor | I |
| Beg you step closer to the edge | M |
| That I may push you o'er the ledge | M |
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| But back I shrank sped down the stair | I |
| And sought the Baptistry where God is | E |
| For I had no desire I swear | I |
| To prove the law of falling bodies | E |
| You're right when one's nigh eighty he's a | N |
| Damphool to climb the Tower of Pisa | N |
Robert Service
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