Rome: At The Pyramid Of Cestius. (near The Graves Of Shelley & Keats) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD DEDE BFBF DGDG DHDH| Who then was Cestius | A |
| And what is he to me | B |
| Amid thick thoughts and memories multitudinous | A |
| One thought alone brings he | B |
| - | |
| I can recall no word | C |
| Of anything he did | D |
| For me he is a man who died and was interred | C |
| To leave a pyramid | D |
| - | |
| Whose purpose was exprest | D |
| Not with its first design | E |
| Nor till far down in Time beside it found their rest | D |
| Two countrymen of mine | E |
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| Cestius in life maybe | B |
| Slew breathed out threatening | F |
| I know not This I know in death all silently | B |
| He does a kindlier thing | F |
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| In beckoning pilgrim feet | D |
| With marble finger high | G |
| To where by shadowy wall and history haunted street | D |
| Those matchless singers lie | G |
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| Say then he lived and died | D |
| That stones which bear his name | H |
| Should mark through Time where two immortal Shades abide | D |
| It is an ample fame | H |
Thomas Hardy
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