An Ancient To Ancients Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEB FBFFBFB GBGBBBB HBHIBIB JBJFBFB BBBFBFB FBFFBFB JBJFBFB JBJKBKB FBFLBLB| Where once we danced where once we sang | A |
| Gentlemen | B |
| The floors are sunken cobwebs hang | A |
| And cracks creep worms have fed upon | C |
| The doors Yea sprightlier times were then | D |
| Than now with harps and tabrets gone | E |
| Gentlemen | B |
| - | |
| Where once we rowed where once we sailed | F |
| Gentlemen | B |
| And damsels took the tiller veiled | F |
| Against too strong a stare God wot | F |
| Their fancy then or anywhen | B |
| Upon that shore we are clean forgot | F |
| Gentlemen | B |
| - | |
| We have lost somewhat of that afar and near | G |
| Gentlemen | B |
| The thinning of our ranks each year | G |
| Affords a hint we are nigh undone | B |
| That shall not be ever again | B |
| The marked of many loved of one | B |
| Gentlemen | B |
| - | |
| In dance the polka hit our wish | H |
| Gentlemen | B |
| The paced quadrille the spry schottische | H |
| Sir Roger And in opera spheres | I |
| The Girl the famed Bohemian | B |
| And Trovatore held the ears | I |
| Gentlemen | B |
| - | |
| This season's paintings do not please | J |
| Gentlemen | B |
| Like Etty Mulready Maclise | J |
| Throbbing romance had waned and wanned | F |
| No wizard wields the witching pen | B |
| Of Bulwer Scott Dumas and Sand | F |
| Gentlemen | B |
| - | |
| The bower we shrined to Tennyson | B |
| Gentlemen | B |
| Is roof wrecked damps there drip upon | B |
| Sagged seats the creeper nails are rust | F |
| The spider is sole denizen | B |
| Even she who voiced those rhymes is dust | F |
| Gentlemen | B |
| - | |
| We who met sunrise sanguine souled | F |
| Gentlemen | B |
| Are wearing weary We are old | F |
| These younger press we feel our rout | F |
| Is imminent to A des' den | B |
| That evening shades are stretching out | F |
| Gentlemen | B |
| - | |
| And yet though ours be failing frames | J |
| Gentlemen | B |
| So were some others' history names | J |
| Who trode their track light limbed and fast | F |
| As these youth and not alien | B |
| From enterprise to their long last | F |
| Gentlemen | B |
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| Sophocles Plato Socrates | J |
| Gentlemen | B |
| Pythagoras Thucydides | J |
| Herodotus and Homer yea | K |
| Clement Augustin Origen | B |
| Burnt brightlier towards their setting day | K |
| Gentlemen | B |
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| And ye red lipped and smooth browed list | F |
| Gentlemen | B |
| Much is there waits you we have missed | F |
| Much lore we leave you worth the knowing | L |
| Much much has lain outside our ken | B |
| Nay rush not time serves we are going | L |
| Gentlemen | B |
Thomas Hardy
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