To Cardinal Richelieu. (from Malherbe) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEEDFGFGHIJKKJ| Thou mighty Prince of Church and State | A |
| Richelieu until the hour of death | B |
| Whatever road man chooses Fate | A |
| Still holds him subject to her breath | B |
| Spun of all silks our days and nights | C |
| Have sorrows woven with delights | C |
| And of this intermingled shade | D |
| Our various destiny appears | E |
| Even as one sees the course of years | E |
| Of summers and of winters made | D |
| Sometimes the soft deceitful hours | F |
| Let us enjoy the halcyon wave | G |
| Sometimes impending peril lowers | F |
| Beyond the seaman's skill to save | G |
| The Wisdom infinitely wise | H |
| That gives to human destinies | I |
| Their foreordained necessity | J |
| Has made no law more fixed below | K |
| Than the alternate ebb and flow | K |
| Of Fortune and Adversity | J |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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