The Empty Hills Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB CDCD EBEB FGFHThe grandeur of deep afternoons | A |
The pomp of haze on marble hills | B |
Where every white walled villa swoons | B |
Through violence that heat fulfills | B |
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Pass tirelessly and more alone | C |
Than kings that time has laid aside | D |
Safe on their massive sea of stone | C |
The empty tufted gardens ride | D |
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Here is no music where the air | E |
Drives slowly through the airy leaves | B |
Meaning is aimless motion where | E |
The sinking humming bird conceives | B |
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No book nor picture has inlaid | F |
This life with darkened gold but here | G |
Men passionless and dumb invade | F |
A quiet that entrances fear | H |
Yvor Winters
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