In Hyde Park Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI CJCC CKCK FLFL CMCM CNCN COCO PQPL FPFP| They come from the highways of labour | A |
| From labour and leisure they come | B |
| But not to the sound of the tabor | C |
| And not to the beating of drum | B |
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| By thousands the people assemble | D |
| With faces of shadow and flame | E |
| And spirits that sicken and tremble | D |
| Because of their sorrow and shame | E |
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| Their voice is the voice of a nation | F |
| But lo it is muffled and mute | G |
| For the sword of a strong tribulation | F |
| Hath stricken their peace to the root | G |
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| The beautiful tokens of pity | H |
| Have utterly fled from their eyes | I |
| For the demon who darkened the city | H |
| Is curst in the breaking of sighs | I |
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| Their thoughts are as one and together | C |
| They band in their terrible ire | J |
| Like legions of wind in fierce weather | C |
| Whose footsteps are thunder and fire | C |
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| But for ever like springs of sweet water | C |
| That sings in the grass hidden leas | K |
| As soft as the voice of a daughter | C |
| There cometh a whisper from these | K |
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| There cometh from shame and dejection | F |
| From wrath and the blackness thereof | L |
| A word at whose heart is affection | F |
| With a sighing whose meaning is love | L |
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| In the land of distress and of danger | C |
| With their foreheads in sackcloth and dust | M |
| They weep for the wounds of the Stranger | C |
| And mourn o'er the ashes of trust | M |
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| They weep for the Prince and the Mother | C |
| Whose years have been smitten of grief | N |
| For the son and the lord and the brother | C |
| And the widow the queen and the chief | N |
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| But he having moved like a splendour | C |
| Amongst them in happier days | O |
| With the grace that is manly and tender | C |
| And the kindness that passes all praise | O |
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| Will think in the sickness and shadow | P |
| Of greetings in forest and grove | Q |
| And welcome in city and meadow | P |
| Nor couple this sin with their love | L |
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| For the sake of the touching devotion | F |
| That sobs through the depths of their woe | P |
| This son of the kings of the ocean | F |
| As he came to them trusting will go | P |
Henry Kendall
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