Lausanne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDDC EFFE DCCD GHHG| In Gibbon's Old Garden P M June | A |
| The th anniversary of the completion of the Decline and Fall at the same hour and place | B |
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| A spirit seems to pass | C |
| Formal in pose but grave and grand withal | D |
| He contemplates a volume stout and tall | D |
| And far lamps fleck him through the thin acacias | C |
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| Anon the book is closed | E |
| With It is finished And at the alley's end | F |
| He turns and soon on me his glances bend | F |
| And as from earth comes speech small muted yet composed | E |
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| How fares the Truth now Ill | D |
| Do pens but slily further her advance | C |
| May one not speed her but in phrase askance | C |
| Do scribes aver the Comic to be Reverend still | D |
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| Still rule those minds on earth | G |
| At whom sage Milton's wormwood words were hurled | H |
| 'Truth like a bastard comes into the world | H |
| Never without ill fame to him who gives her birth' | G |
Thomas Hardy
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