You Ask Me, Why, Tho' Ill At Ease Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDCEFFE GHHG IJJI KLLK MNNM| You ask me why tho' ill at ease | A |
| Within this region I subsist | B |
| Whose spirits falter in the mist | B |
| And languish for the purple seas | A |
| It is the land that freemen till | C |
| That sober suited Freedom chose | D |
| The land where girt with friends or foes | D |
| A man may speak the thing he will | C |
| A land of settled government | E |
| A land of just and old renown | F |
| Where Freedom slowly broadens down | F |
| From precedent to precedent | E |
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| Where faction seldom gathers head | G |
| But by degrees to fullness wrought | H |
| The strength of some diffusive thought | H |
| Hath time and space to work and spread | G |
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| Should banded unions persecute | I |
| Opinion and induce a time | J |
| When single thought is civil crime | J |
| And individual freedom mute | I |
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| Tho' Power should make from land to land | K |
| The name of Britain trebly great | L |
| Tho' every channel of the State | L |
| Should fill and choke with golden sand | K |
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| Yet waft me from the harbour mouth | M |
| Wild wind I seek a warmer sky | N |
| And I will see before I die | N |
| The palms and temples of the South | M |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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