In The Old Theatre, Fiesole. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA ABBA CDDCDC| I traced the Circus whose gray stones incline | A |
| Where Rome and dim Etruria interjoin | A |
| Till came a child who showed an ancient coin | A |
| That bore the image of a Constantine | A |
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| She lightly passed nor did she once opine | A |
| How better than all books she had raised for me | B |
| In swift perspective Europe's history | B |
| Through the vast years of Caesar's sceptred line | A |
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| For in my distant plot of English loam | C |
| 'Twas but to delve and straightway there to find | D |
| Coins of like impress As with one half blind | D |
| Whom common simples cure her act flashed home | C |
| In that mute moment to my opened mind | D |
| The power the pride the reach of perished Rome | C |
Thomas Hardy
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