Ode (from The French) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEEFGHHIIJJJKKCC CC ABBELMECCCCKKNN AOOKKPPQQKRRKSSTTCCC CASIICCJCJCCKUKL HVVWWCCCCXEYZEEA2A2C CJJ HCCEECCFFCCB2B2CC| I | A |
| We do not curse thee Waterloo | B |
| Though Freedom's blood thy plain bedew | C |
| There 'twas shed but is not sunk | D |
| Rising from each gory trunk | D |
| Like the water spout from ocean | E |
| With a strong and growing motion | E |
| It soars and mingles in the air | F |
| With that of lost Labedoy re | G |
| With that of him whose honour'd grave | H |
| Contains the 'bravest of the brave | H |
| A crimson cloud it spreads and glows | I |
| But shall return to whence it rose | I |
| When 'tis full 'twill burst asunder | J |
| Never yet was heard such thunder | J |
| As then shall shake the world with wonder | J |
| Never yet was seen such lightning | K |
| As o'er heaven shall then be bright'ning | K |
| Like the Wormwood Star foretold | C |
| By the sainted Seer of old | C |
| Show'ring down a fiery flood | C |
| Turning rivers into blood | C |
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| II | A |
| The Chief has fallen but not by you | B |
| Vanquishers of Waterloo | B |
| When the soldier citizen | E |
| Sway'd not o'er his fellow men | L |
| Save in deeds that led them on | M |
| Where Glory smiled on Freedom's son | E |
| Who of all the despots banded | C |
| With that youthful chief competed | C |
| Who could boast o'er France defeated | C |
| Till lone Tyranny commanded | C |
| Till goaded by ambition's sting | K |
| The Hero sunk into the King | K |
| Then he fell so perish all | N |
| Who would men by man enthral | N |
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| III | A |
| And thou too of the snow white plume | O |
| Whose realm refused thee ev'n a tomb | O |
| Better hadst thou still been leading | K |
| France o'er hosts of hirelings bleeding | K |
| Than sold thyself to death and shame | P |
| For a meanly royal name | P |
| Such as he of Naples wears | Q |
| Who thy blood bought title bears | Q |
| Little didst thou deem when dashing | K |
| On thy war horse through the ranks | R |
| Like a stream which burst its banks | R |
| While helmets cleft and sabres clashing | K |
| Shone and shiver'd fast around thee | S |
| Of the fate at last which found thee | S |
| Was that haughty plume laid low | T |
| By a slave's dishonest blow | T |
| Once as the moon sways o'er the tide | C |
| It roll'd in air the warrior's guide | C |
| Through the smoke created night | C |
| Of the black and sulphurous fight | C |
| The soldier raised his seeking eye | A |
| To catch that crest's ascendancy | S |
| And as it onward rolling rose | I |
| So moved his heart upon our foes | I |
| There where death's brief pang was quickest | C |
| And the battle's wreck lay thickest | C |
| Strew 'd beneath the advancing banner | J |
| Of the eagles burning crest | C |
| There thunder clouds to fan her | J |
| Who could then her wing arrest | C |
| Victory beaming from her breast | C |
| While the broken line enlarging | K |
| Fell or fled along the plain | U |
| There be sure was Murat charging | K |
| There he ne'er shall charge again | L |
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| IV | H |
| O'er glories gone the invaders march | V |
| Weeps Triumph o'er each levell'd arch | V |
| But let Freedom rejoice | W |
| With her heart in her voice | W |
| But her hand on her sword | C |
| Doubly shall she be adored | C |
| France hath twice too well been taught | C |
| The 'moral lesson' dearly bought | C |
| Her safety sits not on a throne | X |
| With Capet or Napoleon | E |
| But in equal rights and laws | Y |
| Hearts and hands in one great cause | Z |
| Freedom such as God hath given | E |
| Unto all beneath his heaven | E |
| With their breath and from their birth | A2 |
| Though guilt would sweep it from the earth | A2 |
| With a fierce and lavish hand | C |
| Scattering nations' wealth like sand | C |
| Pouring nations' blood like water | J |
| In imperial seas of slaughter | J |
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| V | H |
| But the heart and the mind | C |
| And the voice of mankind | C |
| Shall arise in communion | E |
| And who shall resist that proud union | E |
| The time is past when swords subdued | C |
| Man may die the soul's renew'd | C |
| Even in this low world of care | F |
| Freedom ne'er shall want an heir | F |
| Millions breathe but to inherit | C |
| Her for ever bounding spirit | C |
| When once more her hosts assemble | B2 |
| Tyrants shall believe and tremble | B2 |
| Smile they at this idle threat | C |
| Crimson tears will follow yet | C |
George Gordon Byron
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