The Empty Hills Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB CDCD EBEB FGFH| The 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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