Mummia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB BBBB ABAB BDBD BEBE FGFG BHBH IJIJ BHBH| As those of old drank mummia | A |
| To fire their limbs of lead | B |
| Making dead kings from Africa | C |
| Stand pandar to their bed | B |
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| Drunk on the dead and medicined | B |
| With spiced imperial dust | B |
| In a short night they reeled to find | B |
| Ten centuries of lust | B |
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| So I from paint stone tale and rhyme | A |
| Stuffed love's infinity | B |
| And sucked all lovers of all time | A |
| To rarify ecstasy | B |
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| Helen's the hair shuts out from me | B |
| Verona's livid skies | D |
| Gypsy the lips I press and see | B |
| Two Antonys in your eyes | D |
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| The unheard invisible lovely dead | B |
| Lie with us in this place | E |
| And ghostly hands above my head | B |
| Close face to straining face | E |
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| Their blood is wine along our limbs | F |
| Their whispering voices wreathe | G |
| Savage forgotten drowsy hymns | F |
| Under the names we breathe | G |
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| Woven from their tomb and one with it | B |
| The night wherein we press | H |
| Their thousand pitchy pyres have lit | B |
| Your flaming nakedness | H |
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| For the uttermost years have cried and clung | I |
| To kiss your mouth to mine | J |
| And hair long dust was caught was flung | I |
| Hand shaken to hand divine | J |
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| And Life has fired and Death not shaded | B |
| All Time's uncounted bliss | H |
| And the height o' the world has flamed and faded | B |
| Love that our love be this | H |
Rupert Brooke
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