Lines Written In Windsor Park Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA CCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK| These verses appeared with Churchill's name to them in the London | A |
| Magazine for and there is no reason to doubt their being | B |
| genuine | A |
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| When Pope to Satire gave its lawful way | C |
| And made the Nimrods of Mankind his prey | C |
| When haughty Windsor heard through every wood | D |
| Their shame who durst be great yet not be good | D |
| Who drunk with power and with ambition blind | E |
| Slaves to themselves and monsters to mankind | E |
| Sinking the man to magnify the prince | F |
| Were heretofore what Stuarts have been since | F |
| Could he have look'd into the womb of Time | G |
| How might his spirit in prophetic rhyme | G |
| Inspired by virtue and for freedom bold | H |
| Matters of different import have foretold | H |
| How might his Muse if any Muse's tongue | I |
| Could equal such an argument have sung | I |
| One William who makes all mankind his care | J |
| And shines the saviour of his country there | J |
| One William who to every heart gives law | K |
| The son of George the image of Nassau | K |
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