A Sunset Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCDCECECFCFGFEC GCHCHH| Westward a league the city lay with one | A |
| Cloud's imminent umbrage o'er it when behold | B |
| The incendiary sun | A |
| Dropped from the womb o' the vapour rolled | B |
| 'Mongst huddled towers and temples 'twixt them set | C |
| Infinite ardour of candescent gold | B |
| Encompassed minaret | C |
| And terrace and marmoreal spire | D |
| With conflagration roofs enfurnaced yet | C |
| Unmolten columns and cupolas flanked with fire | E |
| Yet standing unconsumed | C |
| Of the fierce fervency and higher | E |
| Than all their fringes goldenly illumed | C |
| Dishevelled clouds like massed empurpled smoke | F |
| From smouldering forges fumed | C |
| Till suddenly the bright spell broke | F |
| With the sun sinking through some palace floor | G |
| And vanishing wholly Then the city woke | F |
| Her mighty Fire Dream o'er | E |
| As who from out a sleep is raised | C |
| Of terrible loveliness lasting hardly more | G |
| Than one most monumental moment dazed | C |
| He looketh having come | H |
| Forth of one world and witless gazed | C |
| Into another ev'n so looked for some | H |
| Brief while the city amazed immobile dumb | H |
William Watson
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