Bismarck At Canossa: Sonnets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACCDEDD| NOT ALL disgraced in that Italian town | A |
| The imperial German cowered beneath thine hand | B |
| Alone indeed imperial Hildebrand | B |
| And felt thy foot and Rome s and felt her frown | A |
| And thine more strong and sovereign than his crown | A |
| Though iron forged its blood encrusted band | B |
| But now the princely wielder of his land | B |
| For hatred s sake toward freedom so bows down | A |
| No strength is in the foot to spurn its tread | C |
| Can bruise not now the proud submitted head | C |
| But how much more abased much lower brought low | D |
| And more intolerably humiliated | E |
| The neck submissive of the prosperous foe | D |
| Than his whom scorn saw shuddering in the snow | D |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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