For Greece And Crete Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBBCCCDDDEEFGHGII I| Storm and shame and fraud and darkness fill the nations full with night | A |
| Hope and fear whose eyes yearn eastward have but fire and sword in sight | A |
| One alone whose name is one with glory sees and seeks the light | A |
| Hellas mother of the spirit sole supreme in war and peace | B |
| Land of light whose word remembered bids all fear and sorrow cease | B |
| Lives again while freedom lightens eastward yet for sons of Greece | B |
| Greece where only men whose manhood was as godhead ever trod | C |
| Bears the blind world witness yet of light wherewith her feet are shod | C |
| Freedom armed of Greece was always very man and very God | C |
| Now the winds of old that filled her sails with triumph when the fleet | D |
| Bound for death from Asia fled before them stricken wake to greet | D |
| Ships full winged again for freedom toward the sacred shores of Crete | D |
| There was God born man the song that spake of old time said and there | E |
| Man made even as God by trust that shows him nought too dire to dare | E |
| Now may light again the beacon lit when those we worship were | F |
| Sharp the concert wrought of discord shrills the tune of shame and death | G |
| Turk by Christian fenced and fostered Mecca backed by Nazareth | H |
| All the powerless powers tongue valiant breathe but greed's or terror's breath | G |
| Though the tide that feels the west wind lift it wave by widening wave | I |
| Wax not yet to height and fullness of the storm that smites to save | I |
| None shall bid the flood back seaward till no bar be left to brave | I |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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