Woodstock Park Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCBBCDEFDEFHere in a little rustic hermitage | A |
Alfred the Saxon King Alfred the Great | B |
Postponed the cares of king craft to translate | B |
The Consolations of the Roman sage | C |
Here Geoffrey Chaucer in his ripe old age | C |
Wrote the unrivalled Tales which soon or late | B |
The venturous hand that strives to imitate | B |
Vanquished must fall on the unfinished page | C |
Two kings were they who ruled by right divine | D |
And both supreme one in the realm of Truth | E |
One in the realm of Fiction and of Song | F |
What prince hereditary of their line | D |
Uprising in the strength and flush of youth | E |
Their glory shall inherit and prolong | F |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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