Upon The Late Storm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A AABBCCDDEEFFGHHHHHIB JJKKHHLHMMNNHHAnd Death of His Highness Ensuing the Same | A |
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We must resign Heaven his great soul does claim | A |
In storms as loud as his immortal fame | A |
His dying groans his last breath shakes our isle | B |
And trees uncut fall for his funeral pile | B |
About his palace their broad roots are tossed | C |
Into the air So Romulus was lost | C |
New Rome in such a tempest missed her king | D |
And from obeying fell to worshipping | D |
On Oeta's top thus Hercules lay dead | E |
With ruined oaks and pines about him spread | E |
The poplar too whose bough he wont to wear | F |
On his victorious head lay prostrate there | F |
Those his last fury from the mountain rent | G |
Our dying hero from the continent | H |
Ravished whole towns and forts from Spaniards reft | H |
As his last legacy to Britain left | H |
The ocean which so long our hopes confined | H |
Could give no limits to his vaster mind | H |
Our bounds' enlargement was his latest toil | I |
Nor hath he left us prisoners to our isle | B |
Under the tropic is our language spoke | J |
And part of Flanders hath received our yoke | J |
From civil broils he did us disengage | K |
Found nobler objects for our martial rage | K |
And with wise conduct to his country showed | H |
Their ancient way of conquering abroad | H |
Ungrateful then if we no tears allow | L |
To him that gave us peace and empire too | H |
Princes that feared him grieve concerned to see | M |
No pitch of glory from the grave is free | M |
Nature herself took notice of his death | N |
And sighing swelled the sea with such a breath | N |
That to remotest shores her billows rolled | H |
The approaching fate of her great ruler told | H |
Edmund Waller
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