Tercentenary Ode On Shakespeare Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EED FFGG HHBB IIJJ KKLM NNOO DDDD PPQQ RRSS TTUUVWXBD| We had the honour of delivering in the principal address at the | A |
| tercentennial anniversary of Shakspeare in the Town Hall | B |
| Ingersoll before a large audience and we read the following ode | C |
| on the occasion | D |
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| ' Shakespeare requires no marble monument | E |
| He lives forever in our wonder and astonishment | E |
| BEN JONSON | D |
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| Three centuries have passed away | F |
| Since that most famous April day | F |
| When the sweet gentle Will was born | G |
| Whose name the age will 'ere adorn | G |
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| That great Elizabethian age | H |
| Does not leave on history's page | H |
| A name so bright he stands like Saul | B |
| A head and shoulders over all | B |
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| Delineator of mankind | I |
| Who shows the workings of the mind | I |
| And in review in nature's glass | J |
| Portrays the thoughts of every class | J |
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| That man is dull who will not laugh | K |
| At the drolleries of Falstaff | K |
| And few that could not shed a tear | L |
| At sorrows of poor old King Lear | M |
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| Or lament o'er King Duncan's death | N |
| Stabbed by the dagger of McBeth | N |
| Or gentle Desdimona pure | O |
| Slain by the misled jealous Moore | O |
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| Or great Cesar mighty Roman | D |
| Who o'ercame his country's foemen | D |
| His high deeds are all in vain | D |
| For by his countrymen he's slain | D |
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| The greatest of heroic tales | P |
| Is that of Harry Prince of Wales | P |
| Who in combat fought so fiercely | Q |
| With the brave and gallant Percy | Q |
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| Imagination's grandest theme | R |
| The tempest or midsummer dream | R |
| And Hamlet's philosophie sic blaze | S |
| Of shattered reason's flickering rays | S |
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| And now on every land on earth | T |
| They commemorate Shakespeare's birth | T |
| And there is met on Avon's banks | U |
| Men of all nations and all ranks | U |
| And here upon Canadian Thames | V |
| The gentle maids and comely dames | W |
| Do meet and each does bring her scroll | X |
| Of laurel leaves from Ingersoll | B |
| Milton | D |
James Mcintyre
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