Rome - Building A New Street In The Ancient Quarter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCB DCCB EFFEEF| April | A |
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| These numbered cliffs and gnarls of masonry | B |
| Outskeleton Time's central city Rome | C |
| Whereof each arch entablature and dome | C |
| Lies bare in all its gaunt anatomy | B |
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| And cracking frieze and rotten metope | D |
| Express as though they were an open tome | C |
| Top lined with caustic monitory gnome | C |
| Dunces Learn here to spell Humanity | B |
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| And yet within these ruins' very shade | E |
| The singing workmen shape and set and join | F |
| Their frail new mansion's stuccoed cove and quoin | F |
| With no apparent sense that years abrade | E |
| Though each rent wall their feeble works invade | E |
| Once shamed all such in power of pier and groin | F |
Thomas Hardy
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