Aquae Sulis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CCCC DCDC EFEG HCH BHB IJIJ| The chimes called midnight just at interlune | A |
| And the daytime talk on the Roman investigations | B |
| Was checked by silence save for the husky tune | A |
| The bubbling waters played near the excavations | B |
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| And a warm air came up from underground | C |
| And a flutter as of a filmy shape unsepulchred | C |
| That collected itself and waited and looked around | C |
| Nothing was seen but utterances could be heard | C |
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| Those of the goddess whose shrine was beneath the pile | D |
| Of the God with the baldachined altar overhead | C |
| 'And what did you get by raising this nave and aisle | D |
| Close on the site of the temple I tenanted | C |
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| 'The notes of your organ have thrilled down out of view | E |
| To the earth clogged wrecks of my edifice many a year | F |
| Though stately and shining once ay long ere you | E |
| Had set up crucifix and candle here | G |
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| 'Your priests have trampled the dust of mine without rueing | H |
| Despising the joys of man whom I so much loved | C |
| Though my springs boil on by your Gothic arcades and pewing | H |
| And sculptures crude Would Jove they could be removed ' | - |
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| ' Repress O lady proud your traditional ires | B |
| You know not by what a frail thread we equally hang | H |
| It is said we are images both twitched by peoples desires | B |
| And that I as you fail as a song that men time agone sang ' | - |
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| And the olden dark hid the cavities late laid bare | I |
| And all was suspended and soundless as before | J |
| Except for a gossamery noise fading off in the air | I |
| And the boiling voice of the waters' medicinal pour | J |
Thomas Hardy
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