The Valley Of The Nile Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFFGHIIJJKK LLMMCCNNOOPP| Far as the sight can reach beneath as clear | A |
| And blue a heaven as ever blest this sphere | A |
| Gardens and pillared streets and porphyry domes | B |
| And high built temples fit to be the homes | B |
| Of mighty gods and pyramids whose hour | C |
| Outlasts all time above the waters tower | C |
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| Then too the scenes of pomp and joy that make | D |
| One theatre of this vast peopled lake | D |
| Where all that Love Religion Commerce gives | E |
| Of life and motion ever moves and lives | E |
| Here up in the steps of temples from the wave | F |
| Ascending in procession slow and grave | F |
| Priests in white garments go with sacred wands | G |
| And silver cymbals gleaming in their hands | H |
| While there rich barks fresh from those sunny tracts | I |
| Far off beyond the sounding cataracts | I |
| Glide with their precious lading to the sea | J |
| Plumes of bright birds rhinoceros' ivory | J |
| Gems from the isle of Mero and those grains | K |
| Of gold washed down by Abyssinian rains | K |
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| Here where the waters wind into a bay | L |
| Shadowy and cool some pilgrims on their way | L |
| To Sa s or Bubastus among beds | M |
| Of lotos flowers that close above their heads | M |
| Push their light barks and hid as in a bower | C |
| Sing talk or sleep away the sultry hour | C |
| While haply not far off beneath a bank | N |
| Of blossoming acacias many a prank | N |
| Is played in the cool current by a train | O |
| Of laughing nymphs lovely as she whose chain | O |
| Around two conquerors of the world was cast | P |
| But for a third too feeble broke at last | P |
Thomas Moore
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