The Roman Gravemounds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB C CD EFEF GHGH IJI KDKD| By Rome's dim relics there walks a man | A |
| Eyes bent and he carries a basket and spade | B |
| I guess what impels him to scrape and scan | A |
| Yea his dreams of that Empire long decayed | B |
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| 'Vast was Rome ' he must muse 'in the worlds regard | C |
| Vast it looms there still Vast it ever will be ' | - |
| And he stoops as to dig and unmine some shard | C |
| Left by those who are held in such memory | D |
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| But no in his basket see he has brought | E |
| A little white furred thing stiff of limb | F |
| Whose life never won from the world a thought | E |
| It is this and not Rome that is moving him | F |
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| And to make it a grave he has come to the spot | G |
| And he delves in the ancient dead's long home | H |
| Their fames their achievements the man knows not | G |
| The furred thing is all to him nothing Rome | H |
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| 'Here say you that Caesar's warriors lie | I |
| But my little white cat was my only friend | J |
| Could she but live might the record die | I |
| Of Caesar his legions his aims his end ' | - |
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| Well Rome's long rule here is oft and again | K |
| A theme for the sages of history | D |
| And the small furred life was worth no one's pen | K |
| Yet its mourner's mood has a charm for me | D |
Thomas Hardy
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