Stratford-on-avon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDAEAEFFBe glad in heaven above all souls insphered | A |
Most royal and most loyal born of men | B |
Shakespeare of all on earth beloved or feared | A |
Or worshipped highest in sight of human ken | B |
The homestead hallowed by thy sovereign birth | C |
Whose name being one with thine stands higher than Rome | D |
Forgets not how of all on English earth | C |
Their trust is holiest there who have their home | D |
Stratford is thine and England's None that hate | A |
The commonweal whose empire sets men free | E |
Find comfort there where once by grace of fate | A |
A soul was born as boundless as the sea | E |
If life if love if memory now be thine | F |
Rejoice that still thy Stratford bears thy sign | F |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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