Czar Alexander The Second Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDDCCD| FROM him did forty million serfs endow'd | A |
| Each with six feet of death due soil receive | B |
| Rich freeborn lifelong land whereon to sheave | B |
| Their country's harvest These to day aloud | A |
| Demand of Heaven a Father's blood sore bow'd | A |
| With tears and thrilled with wrath who while they grieve | B |
| On every guilty head would fain achieve | B |
| All torment by his edicts disallow'd | A |
| He stayed the knout's red ravening fangs and first | C |
| Of Russian traitors his own murderers go | D |
| White to the tomb While he laid foully low | D |
| With limbs red rent with festering brain which erst | C |
| Willed kingly freedom 'gainst the deed accurst | C |
| To God bears witness of his people's woe | D |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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