The Statue Of The Dying Gladiator Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDCCEEFG HHIIJJ KKLLMMNNLLOO LLPPCCOOQREESSTT| COMMANDING pow'r whose hand with plastic art | A |
| Bids the rude stone to grace and being start | A |
| Swell to the waving line the polish'd form | B |
| And only want Promethean fire to warm | B |
| Sculpture exult thy triumph proudly see | C |
| The Roman slave immortalized by thee | C |
| No suppliant sighs no terrors round him wait | D |
| But vanquish'd valor soars above his fate | D |
| In that fix'd eye still proud defiance low'rs | C |
| In that stern look indignant grandeur tow'rs | C |
| He sees e'en death with javelin barb'd in pain | E |
| A foe but worthy of sublime disdain | E |
| Too firm too lofty for one parting tear | F |
| A quiv'ring pulse a struggle or a fear | G |
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| Oh fire of soul by servitude disgrac'd | H |
| Perverted courage energy debas'd | H |
| Lost Rome thy slave expiring in the dust | I |
| Tow'rs far above Patrician rank august | I |
| While that proud rank insatiate could survey | J |
| Pageants that stain'd with blood each festal day | J |
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| Oh had that arm which grac'd thy deathful show | K |
| With many a daring feat and nervous blow | K |
| Wav'd the keen sword and rear'd the patriot shield | L |
| Firm in thy cause on Glory's laureate field | L |
| Then like the marble form from age to age | M |
| His name had liv'd in history's brightest page | M |
| While death had but secur'd the victor's crown | N |
| And seal'd the suffrage of deserv'd renown | N |
| That gen'rous pride that spirit unsubdu'd | L |
| That soul with honor's high wrought sense imbu'd | L |
| Had shone recorded in the song of fame | O |
| A beam as now a blemish on thy name | O |
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| Yet here so well has art majestic wrought | L |
| Sublimed expression and ennobled thought | L |
| A dying Hero we behold alone | P |
| And Mind's bright grandeur animates the stone | P |
| 'Tis not th' Arena's venal champion bleeds | C |
| No 'tis some warrior fam'd for matchless deeds | C |
| Admiring rapture kindles into flame | O |
| Nature and art the palm divided claim | O |
| Nature exulting in her spirit's pow'r | Q |
| To rise victorious in the dreaded hour | R |
| Triumphs that death and all his shadowy train | E |
| Assail a mortal's constancy in vain | E |
| And Art rejoicing in the work sublime | S |
| Unhurt by all the sacrilege of time | S |
| Smiles o'er the marble her divine control | T |
| Moulded to symmetry and fir'd with soul | T |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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