Lamentation Of The Peruvians Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DEDEFCFCGGHHIIJJKK LLMMNNOOPPBBCCQQHHRR SS TAFFHHUU| The foes of the east have come down on our shore | A |
| And the state and the strength of Peru are no more | A |
| Oh curs'd doubly curs'd was that desolate hour | B |
| When they spread o'er our land in the pride of their power | B |
| Lament for the Inca the son of the Sun | C |
| Ataliba's fallen Peru is undone | C |
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| Pizarro Pizarro though conquest may wing | D |
| Her course round thy banners that wanton in air | E |
| Yet remorse to thy grief stricken conscience shall cling | D |
| And shriek o'er thy banquets in sounds of despair | E |
| It shall tell thee that he who beholds from his throne | F |
| The blood thou hast spilt and the deeds thou hast done | C |
| Shall mock at thy fear and rejoice at thy groan | F |
| And arise in his wrath for the death of his son | C |
| Why blew ye ye gales when the murderer came | G |
| Why fann'd ye the fire and why fed ye the flame | G |
| Why sped ye his sails o'er the ocean so blue | H |
| Are ye also combin'd for the fall of Peru | H |
| And thou whom no prayers no entreaties can bend | I |
| Thy crimes and thy murders to heav'n shall ascend | I |
| For vengeance the ghosts of our forefathers call | J |
| At thy threshold Pizarro in death shalt thou fall | J |
| Ay there even there in the halls of thy pride | K |
| With the blood of thine heart shall thy portals be dyed | K |
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| Lo dark as the tempests that frown from the north | L |
| From the cloud of past time Manco Capac looks forth | L |
| Great Inca to whom the gay day star gave birth | M |
| Whose throne is the heaven and whose foot stool the earth | M |
| His visage is sad as the vapours that rise | N |
| From the desolate mountain of fire to the skies | N |
| But his eye flashes flame as the lightnings that streak | O |
| Those volumes that shroud the volcano's high peak | O |
| Hark he speaks bids us fly to our mountains and cherish | P |
| Bold freedom's last spark ere for ever it perish | P |
| Bids us leave these wild condors to prey on each other | B |
| Each to bathe his fierce beak in the gore of his brother | B |
| This symbol we take of our godhead the Sun | C |
| And curse thee and thine for the deeds thou hast done | C |
| May the curses pursue thee of those thou hast slain | Q |
| Of those that have fallen in war on the plain | Q |
| When we went forth to greet ye but foully ye threw | H |
| Your dark shots of death on the sons of Peru | H |
| May the curse of the widow the curse of the brave | R |
| The curse of the fatherless cleave to thy grave | R |
| And the words which they spake with their last dying breath | S |
| Embitter the pangs and the tortures of death | S |
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| May he that assists thee be childless and poor | T |
| With famine behind him and death at his door | A |
| May his nights be all sleepless his days spent alone | F |
| And ne'er may he list to a voice but his own | F |
| Or if he shall sleep in his dreams may he view | H |
| The ghost of our Inca the fiends of Peru | H |
| May the flames of destruction that here he has spread | U |
| Be tenfold return'd on his murderous head | U |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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