Out Of Pompeii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGHIHI JKJLMLML ACCCNONP QRQRSTST| She lay face downward on her beaded arm | A |
| In this her new sweet dream of human bliss | B |
| Her heart within her fearful fluttering warm | C |
| Her lips yet pained with love's first timorous kiss | B |
| She did not note the darkening afternoon | D |
| She did not mark the lowering of the sky | E |
| O'er that great city Earth had given its boon | D |
| Unto her lips love touched her and passed by | E |
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| In one dread moment all the sky grew dark | F |
| The hideous rain the panic the red rout | G |
| Where love lost love and all the world might mark | F |
| The city overwhelmed blotted out | G |
| Without one cry so quick oblivion came | H |
| And life passed to the black where all forget | I |
| But she we know not of her house or name | H |
| In love's sweet musings doth lie dreaming yet | I |
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| The dread hell passed the ruined world grew still | J |
| And the great city passed to nothingness | K |
| The ages went and mankind worked its will | J |
| Then men stood still amid the centuries' press | L |
| And in the ash hid ruins opened bare | M |
| As she lay down in her shamed loveliness | L |
| Sculptured and frozen late they found her there | M |
| Image of love 'mid all that hideousness | L |
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| Her head face downward on her bended arm | A |
| Her single robe that showed her shapely form | C |
| Her wondrous fate love keeps divinely warm | C |
| Over the centuries past the slaying storm | C |
| The heart can read in writings time hath left | N |
| That linger still through death's oblivion | O |
| And in this waste of life and light bereft | N |
| She brings again a beauty that had gone | P |
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| And if there be a day when all shall wake | Q |
| As dreams the hoping doubting human heart | R |
| The dim forgetfulness of death will break | Q |
| For her as one who sleeps with lips apart | R |
| And did God call her suddenly I know | S |
| She'd wake as morning wakened by the thrush | T |
| Feel that red kiss across the centuries glow | S |
| And make all heaven rosier by her blush | T |
William Wilfred Campbell
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