The Song Of Seven Cities Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE AFAF DADA GAGA HAHA DIDI DADA DADA| I was Lord of Cities very sumptuously builded | A |
| Seven roaring Cities paid me tribute from far | B |
| Ivory their outposts were the guardrooms of them gilded | A |
| And garrisoned with Amazons invincible in war | C |
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| All the world went softly when it walked before my Cities | D |
| Neither King nor Army vexed my peoples at their toil | E |
| Never horse nor chariot irked or overbore my Cities | D |
| Never Mob nor Ruler questioned whence they drew their spoil | E |
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| Banded mailed and arrogant from sunrise unto sunset | A |
| Singing while they sacked it they possessed the land at large | F |
| Yet when men would rob them they resisted they made onset | A |
| And pierced the smoke of battle with a thousand sabred charge | F |
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| So they warred and trafficked only yesterday my Cities | D |
| To day there is no mark or mound of where my Cities stood | A |
| For the River rose at midnight and it washed away my Cities | D |
| They are evened with Atlantis and the towns before the Flood | A |
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| Rain on rain gorged channels raised the water levels round them | G |
| Freshet backed on freshet swelled and swept their world from sight | A |
| Till the emboldened floods linked arms and flashing forward droned them | G |
| Drowned my Seven Cities and their peoples in one night | A |
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| Low among the alders lie their derelict foundations | H |
| The beams wherein they trusted and the plinths whereon they built | A |
| My rulers and their treasure and their unborn populations | H |
| Dead destroyed aborted and defiled with mud and silt | A |
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| The Daughters of the Palace whom they cherished in my Cities | D |
| My silver tongued Princesses and the promise of their May | I |
| Their bridegrooms of the June tide all have perished in my Cities | D |
| With the harsh envenomed virgins that can neither love nor play | I |
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| I was Lord of Cities I will build anew my Cities | D |
| Seven set on rocks above the wrath of any flood | A |
| Nor will I rest from search till I have filled anew my Cities | D |
| With peoples undefeated of the dark enduring blood | A |
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| To the sound of trumpets shall their seed restore my Cities | D |
| Wealthy and well weaponed that once more may I behold | A |
| All the world go softly when it walks before my Cities | D |
| And the horses and the chariots fleeing from them as of old | A |
Rudyard Kipling
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