Tamerlane Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCDCDD EFEFG BHBHH IJIJJ KLKLM ANANN OEOEE PQPQQ| LO upon the carpet where | A |
| Throned upon a heap of slain | B |
| Blue eyed dolls of beauty rare | A |
| Ah they pleaded all in vain | B |
| Sits the Infant Tamerlane | B |
| Broken toys upon the floor | C |
| Scattered lie a ruined rout | D |
| Thus from all things evermore | C |
| Are the fact is past a doubt | D |
| Hidden virtues hammered out | D |
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| Poet s page or statesman s bust | E |
| Nothing comes to him amiss | F |
| Everything he clutches must | E |
| Tis his simple dream of bliss | F |
| Suffer his analysis | G |
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| O my little Tamerlane | B |
| Infantile Iconoclast | H |
| Is your small barbaric brain | B |
| Not o erawed by the amassed | H |
| Wit and Wisdom of the Past | H |
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| Type are you of that which springs | I |
| Ever forth when comes the need | J |
| Overthrowing thrones and kings | I |
| Faithless altar sapless creed | J |
| Sowing fresh and living seed | J |
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| On the worn out Roman realm | K |
| In whose purple gnawed the moth | L |
| Thus its pride to overwhelm | K |
| And its state to carve like cloth | L |
| Swept the fierce long sworded Goth | M |
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| Age preserves with doting care | A |
| Things from which life long has fled | N |
| Shrieks to see Youth touch a hair | A |
| On the mouldiest mummy head | N |
| So Egyptians kept their dead | N |
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| Youth comes by with head high reared | O |
| Stares in scorn at these august | E |
| Effigies by age revered | O |
| Gilded shapes of Greed and Lust | E |
| Shakes them into rags and dust | E |
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| Little Vandal smash away | P |
| Riot while your blood is hot | Q |
| If into the world each day | P |
| Such as you are entered not | Q |
| It would perish of dry rot | Q |
Victor James Daley
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