An Ode To Fortune Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDA EFFEBBE GHHGIIG JKLMNNJ| O Lady Fortune 't is to thee I call | A |
| Dwelling at Antium thou hast power to crown | B |
| The veriest clod with riches and renown | B |
| And change a triumph to a funeral | C |
| The tillers of the soil and they that vex the seas | D |
| Confessing thee supreme on bended knees | D |
| Invoke thee all | A |
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| Of Dacian tribes of roving Scythian bands | E |
| Of cities nations lawless tyrants red | F |
| With guiltless blood art thou the haunting dread | F |
| Within thy path no human valor stands | E |
| And arbiter of empires at thy frown | B |
| The sceptre once supreme slips surely down | B |
| From kingly hands | E |
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| Necessity precedes thee in thy way | G |
| Hope fawns on thee and Honor too is seen | H |
| Dancing attendance with obsequious mien | H |
| But with what coward and abject dismay | G |
| The faithless crowd and treacherous wantons fly | I |
| When once their jars of luscious wine run dry | I |
| Such ingrates they | G |
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| Fortune I call on thee to bless | J |
| Our king our Caesar girt for foreign wars | K |
| Help him to heal these fratricidal scars | L |
| That speak degenerate shame and wickedness | M |
| And forge anew our impious spears and swords | N |
| Wherewith we may against barbarian hordes | N |
| Our Past redress | J |
Eugene Field
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