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Don Juan: Canto The Seventh Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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O Love O Glory what are ye who fly	A
Around us ever rarely to alight	B
There's not a meteor in the polar sky	A
Of such transcendent and more fleeting flight	B
Chill and chain'd to cold earth we lift on high	A
Our eyes in search of either lovely light	B
A thousand and a thousand colours they	C
Assume then leave us on our freezing way	C
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And such as they are such my present tale is	D
A non descript and ever varying rhyme	E
A versified Aurora Borealis	F
Which flashes o'er a waste and icy clime	E
When we know what all are we must bewail us	F
But ne'ertheless I hope it is no crime	E
To laugh at all things for I wish to know	G
What after all are all things but a show	G
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They accuse me Me the present writer of	H
The present poem of I know not what	I
A tendency to under rate and scoff	J
At human power and virtue and all that	K
And this they say in language rather rough	L
Good God I wonder what they would be at	K
I say no more than hath been said in Dante's	M
Verse and by Solomon and by Cervantes	N
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By Swift by Machiavel by Rochefoucault	K
By Fenelon by Luther and by Plato	K
By Tillotson and Wesley and Rousseau	K
Who knew this life was not worth a potato	K
'Tis not their fault nor mine if this be so	K
For my part I pretend not to be Cato	K
Nor even Diogenes We live and die	K
But which is best you know no more than I	K
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Socrates said our only knowledge was	O
'To know that nothing could be known ' a pleasant	K
Science enough which levels to an ass	P
Each man of wisdom future past or present	K
Newton that proverb of the mind alas	P
Declared with all his grand discoveries recent	K
That he himself felt only 'like a youth	Q
Picking up shells by the great ocean Truth '	-
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Ecclesiastes said 'that all is vanity'	K
Most modern preachers say the same or show it	K
By their examples of true Christianity	K
In short all know or very soon may know it	K
And in this scene of all confess'd inanity	K
By saint by sage by preacher and by poet	K
Must I restrain me through the fear of strife	R
From holding up the nothingness of life	R
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Dogs or men for I flatter you in saying	S
That ye are dogs your betters far ye may	E
Read or read not what I am now essaying	S
To show ye what ye are in every way	E
As little as the moon stops for the baying	S
Of wolves will the bright muse withdraw one ray	E
From out her skies then howl your idle wrath	T
While she still silvers o'er your gloomy path	T
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'Fierce loves and faithless wars' I am not sure	U
If this be the right reading 'tis no matter	V
The fact's about the same I am secure	U
I sing them both and am about to batter	V
A town which did a famous siege endure	U
And was beleaguer'd both by land and water	V
By Souvaroff or Anglice Suwarrow	V
Who loved blood as an alderman loves marrow	V
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The fortress is call'd Ismail and is placed	K
Upon the Danube's left branch and left bank	S
With buildings in the Oriental taste	K
But still a fortress of the foremost rank	S
Or was at least unless 'tis since defaced	K
Which with your conquerors is a common prank	S
It stands some eighty versts from the high sea	K
And measures round of toises thousands three	K
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Within the extent of this fortification	W
A borough is comprised along the height	K
Upon the left which from its loftier station	W
Commands the city and upon its site	K
A Greek had raised around this elevation	W
A quantity of palisades upright	K
So placed as to impede the fire of those	X
Who held the place and to assist the foe's	X
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This circumstance may serve to give a notion	W
Of the high talents of this new Vauban	W
But the town ditch below was deep as ocean	W
The rampart higher than you'd wish to hang	S
But then there was a great want of precaution	W
Prithee excuse this engineering slang	S
Nor work advanced nor cover'd way was there	V
To hint at least 'Here is no thoroughfare '	-
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But a stone bastion with a narrow gorge	Y
And walls as thick as most skulls born as yet	K
Two batteries cap a pie as our St George	Y
Case mated one and t' other 'a barbette '	-
Of Danube's bank took formidable charge	Z
While two and twenty cannon duly set	K
Rose over the town's right side in bristling tier	V
Forty feet high upon a cavalier	V
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But from the river the town 's open quite	K
Because the Turks could never be persuaded	K
A Russian vessel e'er would heave in sight	K
And such their creed was till they were invaded	K
When it grew rather late to set things right	K
But as the Danube could not well be waded	K
They look'd upon the Muscovite flotilla	A2
And only shouted 'Allah ' and 'Bis Millah '	-
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The Russians now were ready to attack	S
But oh ye goddesses of war and glory	K
How shall I spell the name of each Cossacque	S
Who were immortal could one tell their story	K
Alas what to their memory can lack	S
Achilles' self was not more grim and gory	K
Than thousands of this new and polish'd nation	W
Whose names want nothing but pronunciation	W
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Still I 'll record a few if but to increase	X
Our euphony there was Strongenoff and Strokonoff	R
Meknop Serge Lwow Arsniew of modern Greece	X
And Tschitsshakoff and Roguenoff and Chokenoff	R
And others of twelve consonants apiece	X
And more might be found out if I could poke enough	R
Into gazettes but Fame capricious strumpet	K
It seems has got an ear as well as trumpet	K
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And cannot tune those discords of narration	W
Which may be names at Moscow into rhyme	E
Yet there were several worth commemoration	W
As e'er was virgin of a nuptial chime	E
Soft words too fitted for the peroration	W
Of Londonderry drawling against time	E
Ending in 'ischskin ' 'ousckin ' 'iffskchy ' 'ouski	S
Of whom we can insert but Rousamouski	S
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Scherematoff and Chrematoff Koklophti	K
Koclobski Kourakin and Mouskin Pouskin	W
All proper men of weapons as e'er scoff'd high	R
Against a foe or ran a sabre through skin	W
Little cared they for Mahomet or Mufti	K
Unless to make their kettle drums a new skin	W
Out of their hides if parchment had grown dear	V
And no more handy substitute been near	V
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Then there were foreigners of much renown	W
Of various nations and all volunteers	X
Not fighting for their country or its crown	W
But wishing to be one day brigadiers	X
Also to have the sacking of a town	W
A pleasant thing to young men at their years	X
'Mongst them were several Englishmen of pith	B2
Sixteen call'd Thomson and nineteen named Smith	B2
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Jack Thomson and Bill Thomson all the rest	K
Had been call'd 'Jemmy ' after the great bard	K
I don't know whether they had arms or crest	K
But such a godfather's as good a card	K
Three of the Smiths were Peters but the best	K
Amongst them all hard blows to inflict or ward	K
Was he since so renown'd 'in country quarters	X
At Halifax ' but now he served the Tartars	X
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The rest were jacks and Gills and Wills and Bills	X
But when I've added that the elder jack Smith	B2
Was born in Cumberland among the hills	X
And that his father was an honest blacksmith	B2
I've said all I know of a name that fills	X
Three lines of the despatch in taking 'Schmacksmith '	-
A village of Moldavia's waste wherein	W
He fell immortal in a bulletin	W
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I wonder although Mars no doubt's a god	K
Praise if a man's name in a bulletin	W
May make up for a bullet in his body	K
I hope this little question is no sin	W
Because though I am but a simple noddy	K
I think one Shakspeare puts the same thought in	W
The mouth of some one in his plays so doting	S
Which many people pass for wits by quoting	S
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Then there were Frenchmen gallant young and gay	S
But I'm too great a patriot to record	K
Their Gallic names upon a glorious day	S
I'd rather tell ten lies than say a word	K
Of truth such truths are treason they betray	S
Their country and as traitors are abhorr'd	K
Who name the French in English save to show	V
How Peace should make John Bull the Frenchman's foe	V
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The Russians having built two batteries on	W
An isle near Ismail had two ends in view	R
The first was to bombard it and knock down	W
The public buildings and	K