Bellona Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDD EFEFEGEGG HIHIJKLMM ENEOHPQPP HRHRJSJSS HTHTRHUHH LHJHUUUUU HSHVUHUHH

Thou art moulded in marble impassiveA
False goddess fair statue of strifeB
Yet standest on pedestal massiveA
A symbol and token of lifeB
Thou art still not with stillness of languorC
And calm not with calm boding restD
For thine is all wrath and all angerC
That throbs far and near in the breastD
Of man by thy presence possess'dD
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With the brow of a fallen archangelE
The lips of a beautiful fiendF
And locks that are snake like to strangleE
And eyes from whose depths may be glean'dF
The presence of passions that trembleE
Unbidden yet shine as they mayG
Through features too proud to dissembleE
Too cold and too calm to betrayG
Their secrets to creatures of clayG
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Thy breath stirreth faction and partyH
Men rise and no voice can availI
To stay them rose tinted AstarteH
Herself at thy presence turns paleI
For deeper and richer the crimsonJ
That gathers behind thee throws forthK
A halo thy raiment and limbs onL
And leaves a red track in the pathM
That flows from thy wine press of wrathM
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For behind thee red rivulets trickleE
Men fall by thy hands swift and litheN
As corn falleth down to the sickleE
As grass falleth down to the scytheO
Thine arm strong and cruel and shapelyH
Lifts high the sharp pitiless lanceP
And rapine and ruin and rape lieQ
Around thee The Furies advanceP
And Ares awakes from his tranceP
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We too with our bodies thus weaklyH
With hearts hard and dangerous thusR
We owe thee the saints suffered meeklyH
Their wrongs it is not so with usR
Some share of thy strength thou hast givenJ
To mortals refusing in vainS
Thine aid We have suffered and strivenJ
Till we have grown reckless of painS
Though feeble of heart and of brainS
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Fair spirit alluring if wickedH
False deity terribly realT
Our senses are trapp'd our souls trickedH
By thee and thy hollow idealT
The soldier who falls in his harnessR
And strikes his last stroke with slack handH
On his dead face thy wrath and thy scorn isU
Imprinted Oh seeks he a landH
Where he shall escape thy commandH
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When the blood of thy victims lies red onL
That stricken field fiercest and lastH
In the sunset that gilds ArmageddonJ
With battle drift still overcastH
When the smoke of thy hot conflagrationsU
O'ershadows the earth as with wingsU
Where nations have fought against nationsU
And kings have encounter'd with kingsU
When cometh the end of all thingsU
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Then those who have patiently waitedH
And borne unresisting the painS
Of thy vengeance unglutted unsatedH
Shall they be rewarded againV
Then those who enticed by thy laurelsU
Or urged by thy promptings unblestH
Have striven and stricken in quarrelsU
Shall they too find pardon and restH
We know not yet hope for the bestH

Adam Lindsay Gordon



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