Ages Ago Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCB DEFFFE GHIICH JKLLLK| Launcelot loved Guinevere | A |
| Ages and ages ago | B |
| Beautiful as a bird was she | C |
| Preening its wings in a cypress tree | C |
| Happy in sadness she and he | C |
| They loved each other so | B |
| - | |
| Helen of Troy was beautiful | D |
| As tender flower in May | E |
| Her loveliness from the towers looked down | F |
| With the sweet moon for silver crown | F |
| Over the walls of Troy Town | F |
| Hundreds of years away | E |
| - | |
| Cleopatra Egypt's Queen | G |
| Was wondrous kind to ken | H |
| As when the stars in the dark sky | I |
| Like buds on thorny branches lie | I |
| So seemed she too to Antony | C |
| That age gone prince of men | H |
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| The Pyramids are old stones | J |
| Scarred is that grey face | K |
| That by the greenness of Old Nile | L |
| Gazes with an unchanging smile | L |
| Man with all mystery to beguile | L |
| And give his thinking grace | K |
Walter De La Mare
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