To Rulers And Judges Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDEF GHIJ KLMN DNDO PQRQ ISENHe's risen Highest God to do the judgment fair | A |
Of the earthly ones in their whole band | B |
How long he sad how long will you else spare | A |
The unjust and wicked people in your land | B |
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Your sacred duty is to make support for laws | C |
To make no favor to the strongest ones | D |
To leave the widows and orphans in your borders | E |
Without help and safety not once | F |
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To save the innocent from all that harm and wrong is | G |
To give good shelter to unhappy folks | H |
To shield the weak from evil of the strongest | I |
To drew the poor from their heavy bonds | J |
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They don't hear the words They see and they don't know | K |
Their eyes are covered with a veil of bribes and wealth | L |
The black injustice shakes the havens' dome | M |
And wicked deeds convulse the whole earth | N |
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I thought kings you are strong as strong the gods of heavens | D |
And nobody else can judge you on the earth | N |
But you like I live in the yoke of passions | D |
And just like I'm are serfs of the Lord Death | O |
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And you shall fall like leafs fall that are withered | P |
From wet and bare trees by the autumnal sky | Q |
And you will die the great and wealthy caesar | R |
Just like your poorest slave will die | Q |
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Arise at last O God God of the just and purest | I |
Hark to the prayers they recall with for your grace | S |
Come judge chastise the wicked worldly rulers | E |
And be the only king on Haven and the earth | N |
Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin
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