To Belshazzar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC DEDEECDC FGFGGCGC| Belshazzar from the banquet turn | A |
| Nor in thy sensual fulness fall | B |
| Behold while yet before thee burn | A |
| The graven words the glowing wall | B |
| Many a despot men miscall | B |
| Crown'd and anointed from on high | C |
| But thou the weakest worst of all | B |
| Is it not written thou must die | C |
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| Go dash the roses from thy brow | D |
| Grey hairs but poorly wreathe with them | E |
| Youth's garlands misbecome thee now | D |
| More than thy very diadem | E |
| Where thou hast tarnish'd every gem | E |
| Then throw the worthless bauble by | C |
| Which worn by thee ev'n slaves con temn | D |
| And learn like better men to die | C |
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| Oh early in the balance weigh'd | F |
| And ever light of word and worth | G |
| Whose soul expired ere youth decay'd | F |
| And left thee but a mass of earth | G |
| To see thee moves the scorner's mirth | G |
| But tears in Hope's averted eye | C |
| Lament that even thou hadst birth | G |
| Unfit to govern live or die | C |
George Gordon Byron
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