To The Marquis Of Dufferin And Ava Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCB A DEED A FGG F HIIH F JKKJ F LMNL F ONNO F PNNP G NQQN G RSTR G GUUG G VFFV G GNNG| I | A |
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| At times our Britain cannot rest | B |
| At times her steps are swift and rash | C |
| She moving at her girdle clash | C |
| The golden keys of East and West | B |
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| II | A |
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| Not swift or rash when late she lent | D |
| The sceptres of her West her East | E |
| To one that ruling has increased | E |
| Her greatness and her self content | D |
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| III | A |
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| Your rule has made the people love | F |
| Their ruler Your viceregal days | G |
| Have added fulness to the phrase | G |
| Of 'Gauntlet in the velvet glove ' | - |
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| IV | F |
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| But since your name will grow with Time | H |
| Not all as honouring your fair fame | I |
| Of Statesman have I made the name | I |
| A golden portal to my rhyme | H |
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| V | F |
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| But more that you and yours may know | J |
| From me and mine how dear a debt | K |
| We owed you and are owing yet | K |
| To you and yours and still would owe | J |
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| VI | F |
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| For he your India was his Fate | L |
| And drew him over sea to you | M |
| He fain had ranged her thro' and thro' | N |
| To serve her myriads and the State | L |
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| VII | F |
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| A soul that watch'd from earliest youth | O |
| And on thro' many a brightening year | N |
| Had never swerved for craft or fear | N |
| By one side path from simple truth | O |
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| VIII | F |
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| Who might have chased and claspt Renown | P |
| And caught her chaplet here and there | N |
| In haunts of jungle poison'd air | N |
| The flame of life went wavering down | P |
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| IX | G |
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| But ere he left your fatal shore | N |
| And lay on that funereal boat | Q |
| Dying 'Unspeakable' he wrote | Q |
| 'Their kindness ' and he wrote no more | N |
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| X | G |
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| And sacred is the latest word | R |
| And now the Was the Might have been | S |
| And those lone rites I have not seen | T |
| And one dear sound I have not heard | R |
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| XI | G |
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| Are dreams that scarce will let me be | G |
| Not there to bid my boy farewell | U |
| When That within the coffin fell | U |
| Fell and flash'd into the Red Sea | G |
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| XII | G |
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| Beneath a hard Arabian moon | V |
| And alien stars To question why | F |
| The sons before the fathers die | F |
| Not mine and I may meet him soon | V |
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| XIII | G |
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| But while my life's late eve endures | G |
| Nor settles into hueless gray | N |
| My memories of his briefer day | N |
| Will mix with love for you and yours | G |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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