The Church At Stratford-on-avon. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GDHI JKLK MNON FELE| One autumn day when hedges yet were green | A |
| And thick branched trees diffused a leafy gloom | B |
| Hard by where Avon rolls its silvery tide | C |
| I stood in silent thought by Shakspeare's tomb | B |
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| O happy church beneath whose marble floor | D |
| His ashes lie who so enriched mankind | E |
| The many sided Shakespeare rare of soul | F |
| And dowered with an all embracing mind | E |
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| Through the stained windows rays of sunshine fall | G |
| In softened glory on the chancel floor | D |
| While I a pilgrim from across the sea | H |
| stand with bare head in reverential awe | I |
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| Churches there are within whose gloomy vaults | J |
| Repose the bones of those that once were kings | K |
| Their power has passed and what remains but clay | L |
| While in his grave our Shakspeare lives and sings | K |
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| Kings were his puppets kingdoms but his stage | M |
| Faint shadows they without his plastic art | N |
| He waves his wand and lo they live again | O |
| And in his world perform their mimic part | N |
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| Born in the purple his imperial soul | F |
| Sits crowned and sceptred in the realms of mind | E |
| Kingdoms may fall and crumble to decay | L |
| Time but confirms his empire o'er mankind | E |
Horatio Alger, Jr.
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