English Poets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDEE FFGG HHIJ KKLL MMMM NNOO PPQQ RRSS TUVE| Tercentenary ode on Shakespeare read by the author at the anniversary concert | A |
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| Three centuries have passed away | B |
| Since that most famous April day | B |
| When the sweet gentle Will was born | C |
| Whose name the age will e're adorn | C |
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| That great Elizabethan age | D |
| Does not leave on history's page | D |
| A name so bright he stands like Saul | E |
| A head and shoulders over all | E |
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| Delineator of mankind | F |
| Who shows the workings of the mind | F |
| And in review in nature's glass | G |
| Portrays the thoughts of every class | G |
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| That man is dull who will not laugh | H |
| At the drolleries of Falstaff | H |
| And few that could not shed a tear | I |
| At sorrows of poor old King Lear | J |
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| Or lament o'er King Duncan's death | K |
| Stabbed by the dagger of McBeth | K |
| Or gentle Desdemona pure | L |
| Slain by the misled jealous Moor | L |
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| Or great Caesar mighty Roman | M |
| Who o'ercame his country's foemen | M |
| His high deeds are all in vain | M |
| For by his countrymen he's slain | M |
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| The greatest of heroic tales | N |
| Is that of Harry Prince of Wales | N |
| Who in combat fought so fiercely | O |
| With the brave and gallant Percy | O |
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| Imagination's grandest theme | P |
| The tempest or midsummer's dream | P |
| And Hamlet's philosophic blaze | Q |
| Of shattered reason's flickering rays | Q |
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| And now in every land on earth | R |
| They commemorate Shakespeare's birth | R |
| And there is met on Avon's banks | S |
| Men of all nations and all ranks | S |
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| And here upon Canadian Thames | T |
| The gentle maids and comely dames | U |
| Do meet and each does bring her scroll | V |
| Of laurel leaves from Ingersoll | E |
James Mcintyre
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