Aspromonte Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE G HI GJIJ KIGI GLJL KMG| So you think he is defeated O ye comfortably seated | A |
| And that Victory is meted in your loaded huckster's scales | B |
| O ye fools though justice tarry yet by heaven broad and starry | C |
| Right howe'er it may miscarry ere the end arrive prevails | B |
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| And you think a wounded hero may hereafter count as zero | D |
| And that every desperate Nero rules the cities which he burns | E |
| That a wild steed caught and snaffled means a nation wholly baffled | F |
| And its future may be raffled in your diplomatic urns | E |
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| Well then know we would not barter this our never flinching martyr | G |
| For the very largest charter we could coax from Right Divine '' | - |
| That his blood upon your ermine only makes us more determine | H |
| To exterminate the vermin who have baulked his grand design | I |
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| Dolts upon successful traitor vengeance groweth only greater | G |
| Not one whit less sure the later the account may be delayed | J |
| And will one day have its grip on every decorated fripon | I |
| Though he loudly laugh and lip on whilst the world is plunged in shade | J |
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| And I pray ye O ye people trust in palace nor in steeple | K |
| If you sow ill you will reap ill to your misery and scorn | I |
| In your generation wiser know that vows of priest and kaiser | G |
| Only supple cheats and lies are to be broken swift as sworn | I |
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| But have faith that Time the Scourger will be even with the perjure | G |
| When shall greener be the verdure upon Aspromonte's slope | L |
| When the populations fitted to be wholly manumitted | J |
| Shall be trampled nor outwitted or by Emperor or Pope | L |
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| And no longer forced to tremble or whilst cursing to dissemble | K |
| Shall free Italy assemble 'neath a new and grander dome | M |
| Grander far than that of Peter wherein Liberty shall seat her | G |
| By his martyrdom completer who first struck for Death or Rome '' | - |
Alfred Austin
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