Ode To Peace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BABACDCD A EFEFGHGH A IJIJKLML N OPOPQRQR R STSTUVUV N WXWXYNYN N ZA2ZA2NXNX N KB2KB2C2FC2F| I | A |
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| She comes benign enchantress heav'n born PEACE | B |
| With mercy beaming in her radiant eye | A |
| She bids the horrid din of battle cease | B |
| And at her glance the savage passions die | A |
| 'Tis Nature's festival let earth rejoice | C |
| And pour to Liberty exulting songs | D |
| In distant regions with according voice | C |
| Let Man the vict'ry bless its prize to Man belongs | D |
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| II | A |
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| Resistless Freedom when she nerves the arm | E |
| No vulgar triumph crowns the hero's might | F |
| She she alone can spread a moral charm | E |
| O'er war's fell deeds and sanctify the fight | F |
| O GALLIA in this bright immortal hour | G |
| How proud a trophy binds thy laurel'd brow | H |
| Republic hail whose independent power | G |
| All earth contested once all earth confesses now | H |
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| III | A |
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| Protecting spirits of the glorious dead | I |
| Ah not in vain the hero's noble toil | J |
| Ah not in vain the patriot's blood is shed | I |
| That blood shall consecrate his native soil | J |
| Illustrious names to hist'ry's record dear | K |
| And breath'd when some high impulse fires the bard | L |
| For you shall virtue pour the glowing tear | M |
| And your remember'd deeds shall still your country guard | L |
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| IV | N |
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| And thou lov'd BRITAIN my parental Isle | O |
| Secure encircled by thy subject waves | P |
| Thou land august where Freedom rear'd her pile | O |
| While gothic night obscur'd a world of slaves | P |
| Thy genius that indignant heard the shock | Q |
| Of frantic combat strife unmeet for thee | R |
| Now views triumphant from his sea girt rock | Q |
| Thee unsubdued alone for thou alone wert free | R |
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| V | R |
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| O happy thy misguided efforts fail'd | S |
| My Country when with tyrant hosts combin'd | T |
| O hideous conquest had thy sword prevail'd | S |
| And crown'd the impious league against mankind | T |
| Thou nurse of great design of lofty thought | U |
| What homicide had thy insensate rage | V |
| Effac'd the sacred lesson thou hast taught | U |
| And with thy purest blood inscrib'd on glory's page | V |
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| VI | N |
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| Ah rather haste to Concord's holy shrine | W |
| Ye rival nations haste with joy elate | X |
| Your blending garlands round her altar twine | W |
| And bind the wounds of no immortal hate | X |
| Go breathe responsive rituals o'er the sod | Y |
| Where Freedom martyrs press an early grave | N |
| Go vow that never shall their turf be trod | Y |
| By the polluting step of tyrant or of slave | N |
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| VII | N |
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| And from your shores the abject vices chase | Z |
| That low Ambition generous souls disdain | A2 |
| Corruption blasting every moral grace | Z |
| Servility that kneels to bless his chain | A2 |
| O Liberty those demons far remove | N |
| Come nymph severely good sublimely great | X |
| Nor to the raptur'd hope of mortals prove | N |
| Like those illusive dreams that pass the iv'ry gate | X |
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| VII | N |
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| New Age that roll'st o'er man thy dawning year | K |
| Ah sure all happy omens hail thy birth | B2 |
| Sure whiter annals in thy train appear | K |
| And purer glory cheers the gladden'd earth | B2 |
| Like the young eagle when his stedfast glance | C2 |
| Meets the full sun beam in his upward flight | F |
| So thou shalt with majestic step advance | C2 |
| And fix thy dauntless eye on Liberty and Light | F |
Helen Maria Williams
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