Inscriptions For The Four Sides Of A Pedestal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDD AEFEFGG ABHBHII IHJHJKK| I | A |
| Marlowe the father of the sons of song | B |
| Whose praise is England's crowning praise above | C |
| All glories else that crown her sweet and strong | B |
| As England clothed with light and fire of love | C |
| And girt with might of passion thought and trust | D |
| Stands here in spirit sleeps not here in dust | D |
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| II | A |
| Marlowe a star too sovereign too superb | E |
| To fade when heaven took fire from Shakespeare's light | F |
| A soul that knew but song's triumphal curb | E |
| And love's triumphant bondage holds of right | F |
| His pride of place who first in place and time | G |
| Made England's voice as England's heart sublime | G |
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| III | A |
| Marlowe bade England live in living song | B |
| The light he lifted up lit Shakespeare's way | H |
| He spake and life sprang forth in music strong | B |
| As fire or lightning sweet as dawn of day | H |
| Song was a dream where day took night to wife | I |
| Let there be life he said and there was life | I |
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| IV | I |
| Marlowe of all our fathers first beheld | H |
| Beyond the tidal ebb and flow of things | J |
| The tideless depth and height of souls impelled | H |
| By thought or passion borne on waves or wings | J |
| Beyond all flight or sight but song's and he | K |
| First gave our song a sound that matched our sea | K |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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