Cromwell's Return Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGHIIJJKLFF MMNNOOPPQBRRSSRRTTUV FFWXFFRRYYFFZZFFA2A2 KKRRRRB2B2C2C2D2D2RR RRRE2RRRRRRF2F2FFFFR RKKG2G2H2H2WWBBEI2LL RRRRUUBBD2J2RRRRTTAn Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return From Ireland | A |
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The forward youth that would appear | B |
Must now forsake his muses dear | B |
Nor in the shadows sing | C |
His numbers languishing | C |
'Tis time to leave the books in dust | D |
And oil the unus d armour's rust | D |
Removing from the wall | E |
The corslet of the hall | E |
So restless Cromwell could not cease | F |
In the inglorious arts of peace | F |
But through adventurous war | G |
Urg d his active star | H |
And like the three forked lightning first | I |
Breaking the clouds where it was nursed | I |
Did thorough his own side | J |
His fiery way divide | J |
For 'tis all one to courage high | K |
The emulous or enemy | L |
And with such to inclose | F |
Is more than to oppose | F |
Then burning through the air he went | M |
And palaces and temples rent | M |
And C sar's head at last | N |
Did through his laurels blast | N |
'Tis madness to resist or blame | O |
The force of angry heaven's flame | O |
And if we would speak true | P |
Much to the man is due | P |
Who from his private gardens where | Q |
He lived reserv d and austere | B |
As if his highest plot | R |
To plant the bergamot | R |
Could by industrious valour climb | S |
To ruin the great work of time | S |
And cast the kingdoms old | R |
Into another mould | R |
Though justice against fate complain | T |
And plead the ancient rights in vain | T |
But those do hold or break | U |
As men are strong or weak | V |
Nature that hateth emptiness | F |
Allows of penetration less | F |
And therefore must make room | W |
Where greater spirits come | X |
What field of all the Civil Wars | F |
Where his were not the deepest scars | F |
And Hampton shows what part | R |
He had of wiser art | R |
Where twining subtle fears with hope | Y |
He wove a net of such a scope | Y |
That Charles himself might chase | F |
To Carisbrooke's narrow case | F |
That then the royal actor born | Z |
The tragic scaffold might adorn | Z |
While round the arm d bands | F |
Did clap their bloody hands | F |
He nothing common did or mean | A2 |
Upon that memorable scene | A2 |
But with his keener eye | K |
The axe's edge did try | K |
Nor called the gods with vulgar spite | R |
To vindicate his helpless right | R |
But bowed his comely head | R |
Down as upon a bed | R |
This was that memorable hour | B2 |
Which first assured the forc d power | B2 |
So when they did design | C2 |
The Capitol's first line | C2 |
A bleeding head where they begun | D2 |
Did fright the architects to run | D2 |
And yet in that the State | R |
Foresaw its happy fate | R |
And now the Irish are ashamed | R |
To see themselves in one year tamed | R |
So much one man can do | R |
That does both act and know | E2 |
They can affirm his praises best | R |
And have though overcome confessed | R |
How good he is how just | R |
And fit for highest trust | R |
Nor yet grown stiffer with command | R |
But still in the Republic's hand | R |
How fit he is to sway | F2 |
That can so well obey | F2 |
He to the Commons feet presents | F |
A kingdom for his first year's rents | F |
And what he may forbears | F |
His fame to make it theirs | F |
And has his sword and spoils ungirt | R |
To lay them at the public's skirt | R |
So when the falcon high | K |
Falls heavy from the sky | K |
She having killed no more does search | G2 |
But on the next green bough to perch | G2 |
Where when he first does lure | H2 |
The falc'ner has her sure | H2 |
What may not then our isle presume | W |
While Victory his crest does plume | W |
What may not others fear | B |
If thus he crowns each year | B |
A C sar he ere long to Gaul | E |
To Italy an Hannibal | I2 |
And to all states not free | L |
Shall climact ric be | L |
The Pict no shelter now whall find | R |
Within his parti coloured mind | R |
But from this valour sad | R |
Shrink underneath the plaid | R |
Happy if in the tufted brake | U |
The English hunter him mistake | U |
Nor lay his hounds in near | B |
The Caledonian deer | B |
But thou the Wars' and Fortune's son | D2 |
March indefatigably on | J2 |
And for the last effect | R |
Still keep thy sword erect | R |
Besides the force it has to fright | R |
The spirits of the shady night | R |
The same arts that did gain | T |
A power must it maintain | T |
Andrew Marvell
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