Cromwell's Statue1 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABACBDBDDEDEEFEFFGF GGHGHHIHIIHI| What needs our Cromwell stone or bronze to say | A |
| His was the light that lit on England's way | A |
| The sundawn of her time compelling power | B |
| The noontide of her most imperial day | A |
| His hand won back the sea for England's dower | C |
| His footfall bade the Moor change heart and cower | B |
| His word on Milton's tongue spake law to France | D |
| When Piedmont felt the she wolf Rome devour | B |
| From Cromwell's eyes the light of England's glance | D |
| Flashed and bowed down the kings by grace of chance | D |
| The priest anointed princes one alone | E |
| By grace of England held their hosts in trance | D |
| The enthroned Republic from her kinglier throne | E |
| Spake and her speech was Cromwell's Earth has known | E |
| No lordlier presence How should Cromwell stand | F |
| With kinglets and with queenlings hewn in stone | E |
| Incarnate England in his warrior hand | F |
| Smote and as fire devours the blackening brand | F |
| Made ashes of their strengths who wrought her wrong | G |
| And turned the strongholds of her foes to sand | F |
| His praise is in the sea's and Milton's song | G |
| What praise could reach him from the weakling throng | G |
| That rules by leave of tongues whose praise is shame | H |
| Him who made England out of weakness strong | G |
| There needs no clarion's blast of broad blown fame | H |
| To bid the world bear witness whence he came | H |
| Who bade fierce Europe fawn at England's heel | I |
| And purged the plague of lineal rule with flame | H |
| There needs no witness graven on stone or steel | I |
| For one whose work bids fame bow down and kneel | I |
| Our man of men whose time commanding name | H |
| Speaks England and proclaims her Commonweal | I |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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