Newark Abbey Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BBCC DDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKLLMM NNOOPPQQRR| August | A |
| with a remembrance of August | A |
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| I gaze where August's sunbeam falls | B |
| Along these grey and lonely walls | B |
| Till in its light absorbed appears | C |
| The lapse of five and thirty years | C |
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| If change there be I trace it not | D |
| In all this consecrated spot | D |
| No new imprint of Ruin's march | E |
| On roofless wall and frameless arch | E |
| The hilss the woods the fields the stream | F |
| Are basking in the self same beam | F |
| The fall that turns the unseen mill | G |
| As then it murmured murmurs still | G |
| It seems as if in one were cast | H |
| The present and the imaged past | H |
| Spanning as with bridge sublime | I |
| That awful lapse of human time | I |
| That gulph unfathomably spread | J |
| Between the living and the dead | J |
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| For all too well my spirit feels | K |
| The only change this place reveals | K |
| The sunbeams play the breezes stir | L |
| Unseen unfelt unheard by her | L |
| Who on that long past August day | M |
| First saw with me those ruins grey | M |
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| Whatever span the fates allow | N |
| Ere I shall be as she is now | N |
| Still in my bosom's inmost cell | O |
| Shall that deep treasured memory dwell | O |
| That more than language can express | P |
| Pure miracle of loveliness | P |
| Whose voice so sweet whose eyes so bright | Q |
| Were my soul's music and its light | Q |
| In those blest days when life was new | R |
| And hope was false but love was true | R |
Thomas Love Peacock
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