To A Certain Nation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFE GHGH IJIJ KLKLWe will not let thee be for thou art ours | A |
We thank thee still though thou forget these things | B |
For that hour's sake when thou didst wake all powers | A |
With a great cry that God was sick of kings | B |
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Leave thee there grovelling at their rusted greaves | C |
These hulking cowards on a painted stage | D |
Who with imperial pomp and laurel leaves | C |
Show their Marengo one man in a cage | D |
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These for whom stands no type or title given | E |
In all the squalid tales of gore and pelf | F |
Though cowed by crashing thunders from all heaven | E |
Cain never said 'My brother slew himself ' | - |
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Tear you the truth out of your drivelling spy | G |
The maniac whom you set to swing death's scythe | H |
Nay torture not the torturer let him lie | G |
What need of racks to teach a worm to writhe | H |
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Bear with us O our sister not in pride | I |
Nor any scorn we see thee spoiled of knaves | J |
But only shame to hear where Danton died | I |
Thy foul dead kings all laughing in their graves | J |
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Thou hast a right to rule thyself to be | K |
The thing thou wilt to grin to fawn to creep | L |
To crown these clumsy liars ay and we | K |
Who knew thee once we have a right to weep | L |
G. K. Chesterton
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