Free Will And Fate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD EFEFGGHH IJIJKKLL MNMMMMOO OPOPQQRR MKMKKKM SSS TUU| You ask me why I envy not | A |
| The Monarch on his throne | B |
| It is that I myself have got | A |
| A Kingdom of my own | B |
| Kingdom by Free Will divine | C |
| Made inalienably mine | C |
| Where over motions blind and brute | D |
| I live and reign supreme a Sovereign absolute | D |
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| Ebbing and flowing as the seas | E |
| And surging but to drown | F |
| Think you that I will pass to these | E |
| My Sceptre and my Crown | F |
| Unto rebel passions give | G |
| Empire and prerogative | G |
| They are attendants in my train | H |
| To come when I command and crouch as I ordain | H |
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| If Will by long succession be | I |
| Not arbiter of Fate | J |
| Assail its majesty and see | I |
| If it doth abdicate | J |
| Chains that do the body bind | K |
| Cannot manacle the mind | K |
| What fetters may the heart control | L |
| Nor doth the Tyrant live that can enslave the soul | L |
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| In Spring when linnets lift their voice | M |
| To praise the Lord and bless | N |
| They are thus punctual of free choice | M |
| Detesting waywardness | M |
| Throughout earth and sky and sea | M |
| Law is loving liberty | M |
| That could but will not go astray | O |
| And free though to rebel delighteth to obey | O |
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| And Spirit though encased in clay | O |
| To sense's grovelling mood | P |
| Accepteth not befall what may | O |
| Ignoble servitude | P |
| In the faggot thrust the torch | Q |
| Till the flame tongues search and scorch | Q |
| Calmly the martyr mounts the pyre | R |
| And smiles amid the smoke and prays above the fire | R |
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| Nor is it Fate directs the waves | M |
| Or dominates the wind | K |
| They are God's servants not His slaves | M |
| And they surmise His mind | K |
| If the planets walk aright | K |
| Though the dim and trackless night | K |
| Nor their true pathway ever miss | M |
| Know ye it is because their Will is one with His ' | - |
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| What is it rules thy singing season | S |
| What is it rules thy singing season | S |
| Instinct that diviner Reason | S |
| To which the wish to know seemeth a sort of treason ' | - |
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| Why dost thou ever cease to sing | T |
| Singing is such sweet comfort who | U |
| If he could sing the whole year through | U |
| Would barter it for anything ' | - |
Alfred Austin
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