My Soul Is Sunk In All-suffusing Shame Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEFC FCGG| My soul is sunk in all suffusing shame | A |
| Yet not for any individual sin | B |
| But that the world's original fair fame | A |
| My own land's most is not what it hath been | B |
| Shrieks of intolerable bondage smite | C |
| Without response its comfortable ears | D |
| Making a craven compromise with Might | C |
| For their own luxury of others' tears | E |
| Better than this the sanguinary crash | F |
| Of fratricidal strokes and nerveful hate | C |
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| So do I hope to hear the sabres clash | F |
| And tumbrils rattle when the snows abate | C |
| Love peace who will I for mankind prefer | G |
| To dungeon or disgrace a sepulchre | G |
Alfred Austin
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