A Counsel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCABBADDEDEE| O strong Republic of the nobler years | A |
| Whose white feet shine beside time's fairer flood | B |
| That shall flow on the clearer for our blood | B |
| Now shed and the less brackish for our tears | C |
| When time and truth have put out hopes and fears | A |
| With certitude and love has burst the bud | B |
| If these whose powers then down the wind shall scud | B |
| Still live to feel thee smite their eyes and ears | A |
| When thy foot's tread hath crushed their crowns and creeds | D |
| Care thou not then to crush the beast that bleeds | D |
| The snake whose belly cleaveth to the sod | E |
| Nor set thine heel on men as on their deeds | D |
| But let the worm Napoleon crawl untrod | E |
| Nor grant Mastai the gallows of his God | E |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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