Rom: On The Palatine (april, 1887) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA ABBA DEED FF| We walked where Victor Jove was shrined awhile | A |
| And passed to Livia's rich red mural show | B |
| Whence thridding cave and Criptoportico | C |
| We gained Caligula's dissolving pile | A |
| - | |
| And each ranked ruin tended to beguile | A |
| The outer sense and shape itself as though | B |
| It wore its marble hues its pristine glow | B |
| Of scenic frieze and pompous peristyle | A |
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| When lo swift hands on strings nigh over head | D |
| Began to melodize a waltz by Strauss | E |
| It stirred me as I stood in Caesar's house | E |
| Raised the old routs Imperial lyres had led | D |
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| And blended pulsing life with lives long done | F |
| Till Time seemed fiction Past and Present one | F |
Thomas Hardy
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