Phases Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDC EFGF HIJI AKLKMNK AOPQ RSR TT BB UVWV XYYZA2Z B2C2D2C2 B2SS| I | A |
| There s a little square in Paris | B |
| Waiting until we pass | C |
| They sit idly there | D |
| They sip the glass | C |
| - | |
| There s a cab horse at the corner | E |
| There's rain The season grieves | F |
| It was silver once | G |
| And green with leaves | F |
| - | |
| There s a parrot in a window | H |
| Will see us on parade | I |
| Hear the loud drums roll | J |
| And serenade | I |
| - | |
| II | A |
| This was the salty taste of glory | K |
| That it was not | L |
| Like Agamemnon s story | K |
| Only an eyeball in the mud | M |
| And Hopkins | N |
| Flat and pale and gory | K |
| - | |
| III | A |
| But the bugles in the night | O |
| Were wings that bore | P |
| To where our comfort was | Q |
| - | |
| Arabesques of candle beams | R |
| Winding | S |
| Through our heavy dreams | R |
| - | |
| Winds that blew | T |
| Where the bending iris grew | T |
| - | |
| Birds of intermitted bliss | B |
| Singing in the night's abyss | B |
| - | |
| Vines with yellow fruit | U |
| That fell | V |
| Along the walls | W |
| That bordered Hell | V |
| - | |
| IV | X |
| Death's nobility again | Y |
| Beautified the simplest men | Y |
| Fallen Winkle felt the pride | Z |
| Of Agamemnon | A2 |
| When he died | Z |
| - | |
| What could London s | B2 |
| Work and waste | C2 |
| Give him | D2 |
| To that salty sacrificial taste | C2 |
| - | |
| What could London s | B2 |
| Sorrow bring | S |
| To that short triumphant sting | S |
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