The Fettered Vultures. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHG IJKJLMCM MGNGMCME MONONPMP MCMEMNEN| Battleships of the Coronation Naval Review Spithead England June | A |
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| Hail sceptered Mars great god of wars | B |
| Hail Carnage queen of blood | C |
| And hail those muffled armaments | D |
| Thy fettered vulture brood | E |
| Their sable wings are laureled and | F |
| Their necks are ribboned gay | G |
| And silken folds their talons hide | H |
| This kingly holiday | G |
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| Grotesque and grim in chains of gold | I |
| They go with solemn mien | J |
| Their horrid plumes bedizened for | K |
| The eyes of king and queen | J |
| But padded claw and mummer's crest | L |
| Have served not to disguise | M |
| Those iron beaks that thirst for blood | C |
| Those wakeful wolfish eyes | M |
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| Ten condors with unsated maws | M |
| Four lesser birds of prey | G |
| An eagle with undaunted eye | N |
| From Shasta far away | G |
| A score of birds from many seas | M |
| All purged of grime and blood | C |
| Keep truckling pace the fete to grace | M |
| Mars' fettered vulture brood | E |
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| But see ye not great god of wars | M |
| And ye Britannia's king | O |
| The day when these black birds shall fly | N |
| On fierce unshackled wing | O |
| When they shall meet 'twixt sea and sky | N |
| Rend flesh and break the bone | P |
| And blood shall trickle through the waves | M |
| To gray old Triton's throne | P |
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| Hail sceptered Mars great god of wars | M |
| Hail Carnage queen of blood | C |
| And hail those muffled armaments | M |
| Thy fettered vulture brood | E |
| And yet Christ's gentle teaching scrolls | M |
| Prophetic on the sky | N |
| Behold some day thy vulture brood | E |
| Shall go unfed and die | N |
Charles Hamilton Musgrove
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