Milton--december 9, 1608: December 9, 1908 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHBI JKLMNOPQRCASR TURCVRWRXYZR A2B2RRMC2D2M DE2F2VG2C| What splendour of imperial station man | A |
| The Tree of Life may reach when rooted fast | B |
| His branching stem points way to upper air | C |
| And skyward still aspires we see in him | D |
| Who sang for us the Archangelical host | E |
| Made Morning by old Darkness urged to the abyss | F |
| A voice that down three centuries onward rolls | G |
| Onward will roll while lives our English tongue | H |
| In the devout of music unsurpassed | B |
| Since Piety won Heaven's ear on Israel's harp | I |
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| The face of Earth the soul of Earth her charm | J |
| Her dread austerity the quavering fate | K |
| Of mortals with blind hope by passion swayed | L |
| His mind embraced the while on trodden soil | M |
| Defender of the Commonwealth he joined | N |
| Our temporal fray whereof is vital fruit | O |
| And choosing armoury of the Scholar stood | P |
| Beside his peers to raise the voice for Freedom | Q |
| Nor has fair Liberty a champion armed | R |
| To meet on heights or plains the Sophister | C |
| Throughout the ages equal to this man | A |
| Whose spirit breathed high Heaven and drew thence | S |
| The ethereal sword to smite | R |
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| Were England sunk | T |
| Beneath the shifting tides her heart her brain | U |
| The smile she wears the faith she holds her best | R |
| Would live full toned in the grand delivery | C |
| Of his cathedral speech an utterance | V |
| Almost divine and such as Hellespont | R |
| Crashing its breakers under Ida's frown | W |
| Inspired yet worthier he whose instrument | R |
| Was by comparison the coarse reed pipe | X |
| Whereof have come the marvellous harmonies | Y |
| Which with his lofty theme of infinite range | Z |
| Abash entrance exalt | R |
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| We need him now | A2 |
| This latest Age in repetition cries | B2 |
| For Belial the adroit is in our midst | R |
| Mammon more swoln to squeeze the slavish sweat | R |
| From hopeless toil and overshadowingly | M |
| Aggrandized monstrous in his grinning mask | C2 |
| Of hypocritical Peace inveterate Moloch | D2 |
| Remains the great example | M |
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| Homage to him | D |
| His debtor band innumerable as waves | E2 |
| Running all golden from an eastern sun | F2 |
| Joyfully render in deep reverence | V |
| Subscribe and as they speak their Milton's name | G2 |
| Rays of his glory on their foreheads bear | C |
George Meredith
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