Paestum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH| Paestum your temples and your streets | A |
| Have been restored to view | B |
| Your fadeless Grecian beauty greets | A |
| The eyes of men anew | B |
| - | |
| But where are all your roses now | C |
| Those wonderful delights | D |
| That made such garlands for the brow | C |
| Of your fair Sybarites | D |
| - | |
| They in your time were more renown'd | E |
| And dearer to your heart | F |
| Than these fine works which mark the bound | E |
| And highest reach of art | F |
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| We'd see you as you look'd of old | G |
| Though column arch and wall | H |
| Were worth a kingdom to behold | G |
| One rose would shame them all | H |
W. M. Mackeracher
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