Arms And The Man. - Pater Patrë Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL GMGM NONO GPGP QRQR| Achilles came from Homer's Jove like brain | A |
| Pavilioned 'mid his ships where Thetis trod | B |
| But he whose image dominates this plain | A |
| Came from the hand of God | B |
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| Yet of his life which shall all time adorn | C |
| I dare not sing to try the theme would be | D |
| To drink as 'twere that Scandinavian Horn | C |
| Whose tip was in the Sea | D |
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| I bow my head and go upon my ways | E |
| Who tells that story can but gild the gold | F |
| Could I pile Alps on Apennines of praise | E |
| The tale would not be told | F |
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| Not his the blade which lyric fables say | G |
| Cleft Pyrenees from ridge to nether bed | H |
| But his the sword which cleared the Sacred Way | G |
| For Freedom's feet to tread | H |
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| Not Caesar's genius nor Napoleon's skill | I |
| Gave him proud mast'ry o'er the trembling earth | J |
| But great in honesty and sense and will | I |
| He was the man of worth | J |
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| He knew not North nor South nor West nor East | K |
| Childless himself Father of States he stood | L |
| Strong and sagacious as a Knight turned Priest | K |
| And vowed to deeds of good | L |
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| Compared with all Earth's heroes I may say | G |
| He was with even half his virtues hid | M |
| Greater in what his hand refrained than they | G |
| Were great in what they did | M |
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| And thus his image dominates all time | N |
| Uplifted like the everlasting dome | O |
| Which rises in a miracle sublime | N |
| Above eternal Rome | O |
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| On Rome's once blooming plain where'er we stray | G |
| That dome majestic rises on the view | P |
| Its Cross a glow with every wandering ray | G |
| That shines along the Blue | P |
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| So his vast image shadows all the lands | Q |
| So holds forever Man's adoring eye | R |
| And o'er the Union which he left it stands | Q |
| Our Cross against the sky | R |
James Barron Hope
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