Inflexible As Fate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGGHHIIJJ| When for one brief dark hour Rome's virile sway | A |
| Felt the sharp shock of Cannae's adverse day | A |
| Forum and field and Senate House were rent | B |
| With cries of nor misgiving nor lament | B |
| Only of men contending now who should | C |
| Purchase the spot on which the Victor stood | C |
| Legion on legion sprang up from the ground | D |
| Gleamed through the land and over ocean wound | D |
| Till Scipio's eagles swarmed on Afric's shore | E |
| And Carthage perished to insult no more | E |
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| Not less resolved than Rome now England stands | F |
| Facing foul fortune with unfaltering hands | F |
| Throughout her Realms is neither fear nor feud | G |
| But calm in strength and steeled in fortitude | G |
| She fills the gaps of death with eager life | H |
| That will nor lag nor haggle in the strife | H |
| Till having backward rolled the lawless tide | I |
| Of crafty treason tyranny and pride | I |
| Her Sword hath brought inflexible as Fate | J |
| Charter of Freedom to a fettered State | J |
Alfred Austin
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