Upon The Late Storm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A AABBCCDDEEFFGHHHHHIB JJKKHHLHMMNNHH

And Death of His Highness Ensuing the SameA
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We must resign Heaven his great soul does claimA
In storms as loud as his immortal fameA
His dying groans his last breath shakes our isleB
And trees uncut fall for his funeral pileB
About his palace their broad roots are tossedC
Into the air So Romulus was lostC
New Rome in such a tempest missed her kingD
And from obeying fell to worshippingD
On Oeta's top thus Hercules lay deadE
With ruined oaks and pines about him spreadE
The poplar too whose bough he wont to wearF
On his victorious head lay prostrate thereF
Those his last fury from the mountain rentG
Our dying hero from the continentH
Ravished whole towns and forts from Spaniards reftH
As his last legacy to Britain leftH
The ocean which so long our hopes confinedH
Could give no limits to his vaster mindH
Our bounds' enlargement was his latest toilI
Nor hath he left us prisoners to our isleB
Under the tropic is our language spokeJ
And part of Flanders hath received our yokeJ
From civil broils he did us disengageK
Found nobler objects for our martial rageK
And with wise conduct to his country showedH
Their ancient way of conquering abroadH
Ungrateful then if we no tears allowL
To him that gave us peace and empire tooH
Princes that feared him grieve concerned to seeM
No pitch of glory from the grave is freeM
Nature herself took notice of his deathN
And sighing swelled the sea with such a breathN
That to remotest shores her billows rolledH
The approaching fate of her great ruler toldH

Edmund Waller



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