In The British Museum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHI GJKJ CLML NOPQ RJK| 'What do you see in that time touched stone | A |
| When nothing is there | B |
| But ashen blankness although you give it | C |
| A rigid stare | B |
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| 'You look not quite as if you saw | D |
| But as if you heard | E |
| Parting your lips and treading softly | F |
| As mouse or bird | E |
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| 'It is only the base of a pillar they'll tell you | G |
| That came to us | H |
| From a far old hill men used to name | I |
| Areopagus ' | - |
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| 'I know no art and I only view | G |
| A stone from a wall | J |
| But I am thinking that stone has echoed | K |
| The voice of Paul | J |
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| 'Paul as he stood and preached beside it | C |
| Facing the crowd | L |
| A small gaunt figure with wasted features | M |
| Calling out loud | L |
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| 'Words that in all their intimate accents | N |
| Pattered upon | O |
| That marble front and were far reflected | P |
| And then were gone | Q |
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| 'I'm a labouring man and know but little | R |
| Or nothing at all | J |
| But I can't help thinking that stone once echoed | K |
| The voice of Paul ' | - |
Thomas Hardy
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