Arms And The Man. - The Oaks And The Tempest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNON PQPQ KRKR STST| Oaks multiplied apace and o'er the seas | A |
| Big rumors went in many a winding ring | B |
| And stories fabulous on every breeze | A |
| Swept to a distant King | B |
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| Full many a tale of wild romance and myth | C |
| In large hyperbole the New World told | D |
| And down from days of Raleigh and of Smith | C |
| The Colonies meant gold | D |
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| Not from Banchoonan's mines came forth the ore | E |
| But from the waters and the woods and fields | F |
| Paid for in blood but bringing more and more | E |
| The wealth that labor yields | F |
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| Then seeing this that King beyond the sea | G |
| The jus divinum filling all his soul | H |
| Bethought him that he held these lands in fee | G |
| And absolute control | H |
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| When this high claim in action was displayed | I |
| With one accord the young Plantations spoke | J |
| And told him English like they were not made | I |
| To plough with such a yoke | J |
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| Thus met not his to falter or to flag | K |
| A sudden fury seized the Royal breast | L |
| Prometheus bound upon a Scythian crag | K |
| His policy expressed | L |
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| And so he ordered in those stormy hours | M |
| His adamantine chains for one and all | N |
| Brute Force and soulless Strength the only Power | O |
| On which he chose to call | N |
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| Great men withstood him many a weary day | P |
| In Press and Parliament full well they strove | Q |
| But all in vain for he was bound to play | P |
| A travesty on Jove | Q |
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| Then flamed the crater And the flame took wing | K |
| Furious and far the lava blazed around | R |
| Until at last on this same spot that King | K |
| His Herculaneum found | R |
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| Breed's Hill became Vesuvius and its stream | S |
| Rushed forth through years a God directed tide | T |
| To light two Worlds and realize the dream | S |
| For which brave Warren died | T |
James Barron Hope
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