The Dead Czar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEFG HIJKLMN OPQR SPKSKTC DUVSUWXKYZCA2B2C2 D2SE2CU SKSU| LAY him beneath his snows | A |
| The great Norse giant who in these last days | B |
| Troubled the nations Gather decently | C |
| The imperial robes about him 'T is but man | D |
| This demi god Or rather it was man | D |
| And is a little dust that will corrupt | E |
| As fast as any nameless dust which sleeps | F |
| 'Neath Alma's grass or Balaklava's vines | G |
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| No vineyard grave for him No quiet tomb | H |
| By river margin where across the seas | I |
| Children's fond thoughts and women's memories come | J |
| Like angels to sit by the sepulchre | K |
| Saying 'All these were men who knew to count | L |
| Front faced the cost of honor nor did shrink | M |
| From its full payment coming here to die | N |
| They died like men ' | - |
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| But this man Ah for him | O |
| Funereal state and ceremonial grand | P |
| The stone engraved sarcophagus and then | Q |
| Oblivion | R |
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| Nay oblivion were as bliss | S |
| To that fierce howl which rolls from land to land | P |
| Exulting 'Art thou fallen Lucifer | K |
| Son of the morning ' or condemning 'Thus | S |
| Perish the wicked ' or blaspheming 'Here | K |
| Lies our Belshazzar our Sennacherib | T |
| Our Pharaoh he whose heart God harden d | C |
| So that he would not let the people go ' | - |
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| Self glorifying sinners Why this man | D |
| Was but like other men you Levite small | U |
| Who shut your saintly ears and prate of hell | V |
| And heretics because outside church doors | S |
| Your church doors congregations poor and small | U |
| Praise Heaven in their own way you autocrat | W |
| Of all the hamlets who add field to field | X |
| And house to house whose slavish children cower | K |
| Before your tyrant footstep you foul tongued | Y |
| Fanatic or ambitious egotist | Z |
| Who thinks God stoops from His high majesty | C |
| To lay His finger on your puny head | A2 |
| And crown it that you henceforth may parade | B2 |
| Your maggotship throughout the wondering world | C2 |
| 'I am the Lord's anointed ' | - |
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| Fools and blind | D2 |
| This Czar this emperor this disthron d corpse | S |
| Lying so straightly in an icy calm | E2 |
| Grander than sovereignty was but as ye | C |
| No better and no worse Heaven mend us all | U |
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| Carry him forth and bury him Death's peace | S |
| Rest on his memory Mercy by his bier | K |
| Sits silent or says only these few words | S |
| 'Let him who is without sin 'mongst ye all | U |
| Cast the first stone ' | - |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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