The Fall Of Rome Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHIG JKKJ LMML NOON| The piers are pummelled by the waves | A |
| In a lonely field the rain | B |
| Lashes an abandoned train | B |
| Outlaws fill the mountain caves | A |
| - | |
| Fantastic grow the evening gowns | C |
| Agents of the Fisc pursue | D |
| Absconding tax defaulters through | D |
| The sewers of provincial towns | C |
| - | |
| Private rites of magic send | E |
| The temple prostitutes to sleep | F |
| All the literati keep | F |
| An imaginary friend | E |
| - | |
| Cerebrotonic Cato may | G |
| Extol the Ancient Disciplines | H |
| But the muscle bound Marines | I |
| Mutiny for food and pay | G |
| - | |
| Caesar's double bed is warm | J |
| As an unimportatnt clerk | K |
| Writes I DO NOT LIKE MY WORK | K |
| On a pink official form | J |
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| Unendowed with wealth or pity | L |
| Little birds with scalet legs | M |
| Sitting on their speckled eggs | M |
| Eye each flu infected city | L |
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| Altogether elsewhere vast | N |
| Herds of reindeer move across | O |
| Miles and miles of golden moss | O |
| Silently and very fast | N |
W. H. Auden
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