Monotones Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABC DEFDEF GHHGHH IHJIHJ KLMKLM NGGNGG FHOFHO| Because there is but one truth | A |
| Because there is but one banner | B |
| Because there is but one light | C |
| Because we have with us our youth | A |
| Once and one chance and one manner | B |
| Of service and then the night | C |
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| Because we have found not yet | D |
| Any way for the world to follow | E |
| Save only that ancient way | F |
| Whosoever forsake or forget | D |
| Whose faith soever be hollow | E |
| Whose hope soever grow grey | F |
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| Because of the watchwords of kings | G |
| That are many and strange and unwritten | H |
| Diverse and our watchword is one | H |
| Therefore though seven be the strings | G |
| One string if the harp be smitten | H |
| Sole sounds till the tune be done | H |
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| Sounds without cadence or change | I |
| In a weary monotonous burden | H |
| Be the keynote of mourning or mirth | J |
| Free but free not to range | I |
| Taking for crown and for guerdon | H |
| No man's praise upon earth | J |
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| Saying one sole word evermore | K |
| In the ears of the charmed world saying | L |
| Charmed by spells to its death | M |
| One that chanted of yore | K |
| To a tune of the sword sweep's playing | L |
| In the lips of the dead blew breath | M |
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| Therefore I set not mine hand | N |
| To the shifting of changed modulations | G |
| To the smiting of manifold strings | G |
| While the thrones of the throned men stand | N |
| One song for the morning of nations | G |
| One for the twilight of kings | G |
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| One chord one word and one way | F |
| One hope as our law one heaven | H |
| Till slain be the great one wrong | O |
| Till the people it could not slay | F |
| Risen up have for one star seven | H |
| For a single a sevenfold song | O |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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