All Hail To The Czar! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFGHDH IJIJKDK LKLKMDM NONOPDQ RARASBS TUTUVDVAll hail to the Czar By the fringe of the foam | A |
That thunders untamed around Albion's shore | B |
See multitudes throng dense as sea birds whose home | A |
Is betwixt the deaf rocks and the ocean's mad roar | B |
And across the ridged waters stand straining their eyes | C |
For a glimpse of the Eagle that comes from afar | D |
Lo it swoops towards the beach and they greet it with cries | C |
That silence the billows All hail to the Czar '' | E |
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All hail to the Czar England's noblest and best | F |
Her oldest her newest her proudest are there | G |
And they vie in obeisance before the great guest | F |
For the prize of his nod for the alms of his stare | G |
To the seat of their Empire they draw him along | H |
Where the Palace flies open to welcome his car | D |
And Prince Press and People with leader and song | H |
Ring the change on the paean All hail to the Czar '' | - |
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All hail to the Czar the bold Monarch who shook | I |
From the heart of the Lion its insolent lust | J |
That once from the strongest no outrage would brook | I |
Till it crouched at his feet till it crawled in the dust | J |
Who the laurels bequeathed to us tore from our brow | K |
Who extinguished our fame that once shone like a star | D |
Made our rulers to tremble our heralds to bow | K |
And our bosoms to mock us All hail to the Czar '' | - |
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All hail to the Czar O yes show him your ships | L |
Had your courage not failed he had seen before now | K |
As they dally at anchor the gag on their lips | L |
And the peace loving holiday trim on their prow | K |
Yes show him your army that mighty array | M |
He so rashly defied when he ventured to mar | D |
The last work of its hands and remind it to say | M |
But with bayonets inverted All hail to the Czar '' | - |
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All hail to the Czar As ye revel and feast | N |
I marvel the ghosts of the bootlessly slain | O |
Do not come from their cold lonely graves in the East | N |
From the hillside that looks o'er the desolate main | O |
Which they perished to save ye surrender to live | P |
To the man ye now slaver all base as ye are | D |
Do not stalk through the banquet hall pallid and give | Q |
The gay toast ere ye drink it All hail to the Czar '' | - |
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All hail to the Czar For his daughter he gave | R |
Like Atrides of old without shrinking or qualm | A |
Though not that the white ships might move o'er the wave | R |
But that ours still might ride in immovable calm | A |
What Religion could once now can Statecraft persuade | S |
And if ye would devote to the furies of war | B |
Half as freely your sons as he gave up his maid | S |
Without shame might ye shout then All hail to the Czar '' | - |
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All hail to the Czar Are ye then sunk so low | T |
O ye sons of the once fearless masters of earth | U |
That ye pour out the wine for an insolent foe | T |
That in depths of dishonour ye simulate mirth | U |
That like unto mongrel hounds beaten and cowed | V |
Ye crouched lick alternately smiter and scar | D |
Oh rather my country lay deaf in its shroud | V |
Than had lived to hear silent All hail to the Czar '' | - |
Alfred Austin
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