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The Duellist - Book Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Deep in the bosom of a wood	A
Out of the road a Temple stood	A
Ancient and much the worse for wear	B
It call'd aloud for quick repair	B
And tottering from side to side	C
Menaced destruction far and wide	C
Nor able seem'd unless made stronger	D
To hold out four or five years longer	D
Four hundred pillars from the ground	E
Rising in order most unsound	E
Some rotten to the heart aloof	F
Seem'd to support the tottering roof	F
But to inspection nearer laid	G
Instead of giving wanted aid	G
The structure rare and curious made	G
By men most famous in their trade	G
A work of years admired by all	H
Was suffer'd into dust to fall	H
Or just to make it hang together	D
And keep off the effects of weather	D
Was patch'd and patch'd from time to time	I
By wretches whom it were a crime	I
A crime which Art would treason hold	J
To mention with those names of old	J
Builders who had the pile survey'd	G
And those not Flitcrofts in their trade	G
Doubted the wise hand in a doubt	K
Merely sometimes to hand her out	K
Whether like churches in a brief	L
Taught wisely to obtain relief	L
Through Chancery who gives her fees	M
To this and other charities	M
It must not in all parts unsound	E
Be ripp'd and pull'd down to the ground	E
Whether though after ages ne'er	B
Shall raise a building to compare	B
Art if they should their art employ	N
Meant to preserve might not destroy	N
As human bodies worn away	O
Batter'd and hasting to decay	O
Bidding the power of Art despair	B
Cannot those very medicines bear	B
Which and which only can restore	P
And make them healthy as before	P
To Liberty whose gracious smile	Q
Shed peace and plenty o'er the isle	Q
Our grateful ancestors her plain	R
But faithful children raised this fane	R
Full in the front stretch'd out in length	S
Where Nature put forth all her strength	S
In spring eternal lay a plain	R
Where our brave fathers used to train	R
Their sons to arms to teach the art	T
Of war and steel the infant heart	T
Labour their hardy nurse when young	U
Their joints had knit their nerves had strung	U
Abstinence foe declared to Death	V
Had from the time they first drew breath	V
The best of doctors with plain food	W
Kept pure the channel of their blood	X
Health in their cheeks bade colour rise	Y
And Glory sparkled in their eyes	Y
The instruments of husbandry	Z
As in contempt were all thrown by	A2
And flattering a manly pride	C
War's keener tools their place supplied	C
Their arrows to the head they drew	B2
Swift to the points their javelins flew	B2
They grasp'd the sword they shook the spear	C2
Their fathers felt a pleasing fear	C2
And even Courage standing by	A2
Scarcely beheld with steady eye	A2
Each stripling lesson'd by his sire	D
Knew when to close when to retire	D2
When near at hand when from afar	E2
To fight and was himself a war	P
Their wives their mothers all around	E
Careless of order on the ground	E
Breathed forth to Heaven the pious vow	F2
And for a son's or husband's brow	F2
With eager fingers laurel wove	G2
Laurel which in the sacred grove	G2
Planted by Liberty they find	H2
The brows of conquerors to bind	H2
To give them pride and spirit fit	I2
To make a world in arms submit	I2
What raptures did the bosom fire	D
Of the young rugged peasant sire	D
When from the toil of mimic fight	J2
Returning with return of night	J2
He saw his babe resign the breast	K2
And smiling stroke those arms in jest	K2
With which hereafter he shall make	L2
The proudest heart in Gallia quake	L2
Gods with what joy what honest pride	C
Did each fond wishing rustic bride	C
Behold her manly swain return	M2
How did her love sick bosom burn	M2
Though on parades he was not bred	N2
Nor wore the livery of red	N2
When Pleasure heightening all her charms	O2
She strain'd her warrior in her arms	O2
And begg'd whilst love and glory fire	D
A son a son just like his sire	D
Such were the men in former times	P2
Ere luxury had made our crimes	P2
Our bitter punishment who bore	P
Their terrors to a foreign shore	P
Such were the men who free from dread	N2
By Edwards and by Henries led	N2
Spread like a torrent swell'd with rains	Q2
O'er haughty Gallia's trembling plains	Q2
Such were the men when lust of power	D
To work him woe in evil hour	D
Debauch'd the tyrant from those ways	R2
On which a king should found his praise	R2
When stern Oppression hand in hand	S2
With Pride stalk'd proudly through the land	S2
When weeping Justice was misled	N2
From her fair course and Mercy dead	N2
Such were the men in virtue strong	T2
Who dared not see their country's wrong	T2
Who left the mattock and the spade	G
And in the robes of War array'd	G
In their rough arms departing took	U2
Their helpless babes and with a look	U2
Stern and determined swore to see	Z
Those babes no more or see them free	Z
Such were the men whom tyrant Pride	C
Could never fasten to his side	C
By threats or bribes who freemen born	V2
Chains though of gold beheld with scorn	V2
Who free from every servile awe	W2
Could never be divorced from Law	X2
From that broad general law which Sense	Y2
Made for the general defence	Y2
Could never yield to partial ties	Y
Which from dependant stations rise	Y
Could never be to slavery led	N2
For Property was at their head	N2
Such were the men in days of yore	P
Who call'd by Liberty before	P
Her temple on the sacred green	Z2
In martial pastimes oft were seen	Z2
Now seen no longer in their stead	N2
To laziness and vermin bred	N2
A race who strangers to the cause	A3
Of Freedom live by other laws	B3
On other motives fight a prey	O
To interest and slaves for pay	O
Valour how glorious on a plan	C3
Of honour founded leads their van	C3
Discretion free from taint of fear	C2
Cool but resolved brings up their rear	C2
Discretion Valour's better half	D3
Dependence holds the general's staff	D3
In plain and home spun garb array'd	G
Not for vain show but service made	G
In a green flourishing old age	E3
Not damn'd yet with an equipage	E3
In rules of Porterage untaught	G
Simplicity not worth a groat	G
For years had kept the Temple door	P
Full on his breast a glass he wore	P
Through which his bosom open lay	O
To every one who pass'd that way	O
Now turn'd adrift with humbler face	F3
But prouder heart his vacant place	F3
Corruption fills and bears the key	Z
No entrance now without a fee	Z
With belly round and full fat face	F3
Which on the house reflected grace	F3
Full of good fare and honest glee	Z
The steward Hospitality	Z
Old Welcome smiling by his side	G
A good old servant often tried	G
And faithful found who kept in view	B2
His lady's fame and interest too	B2
Who made each heart with joy rebound	G
Yet never ran her state aground	G
Was turn'd off or which word I find	G
Is more in modern use resign'd	G
Half starved half starving others bred	G
In beggary with carrion fed	G
Detested and detesting all	H
Made up of avarice and gall	H
Boasting great thrift yet wasting more	P
Than ever steward did before	P
Succeeded one who to engage	E3
The praise of an exhausted age	E3
Assumed a name of high degree	Z
And call'd himself Economy	Z
Within the Temple full in sight	G
Where without ceasing day and night	G
The workmen toiled where Labour bared	G
His brawny arm where Art prepared	G
In regular and even rows	G3
Her types a printing press arose	G3
Each workman knew his task and each	H3
Was honest and expert as Leach	H3
Hence Learning struck a deeper root	G
And Science brought forth riper fruit	G
Hence Loyalty received support	G
Even when banish'd from the court	G
Hence Government gain'd strength and hence	Y2
Religion sought and found defence	Y2
Hence England's fairest fame arose	G3
And Liberty subdued her foes	G3
On a low simple turf made throne	I3
Raised by Allegiance scarcely known	I3
From her attendants glad to be	Z
Pattern of that equality	Z
She wish'd to all so far as could	G
Safely consist with social good	G
The goddess sat around her head	G
A cheerful radiance Glory spread	G
Courage a youth of royal race	F3
Lovelily stern possess'd a place	F3
On her left hand and on her right	G
Sat Honour clothed with robes of lig	Z