Songs In Albion And Albanius Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCBBC A DDEFFEBBGHHG A IIIJJKKLLK K MJMJBBJ M NBBNN OOPPMMOO| I | A |
| - | |
| Cease Augusta cease thy mourning | B |
| Happy days appear | C |
| Godlike Albion is returning | B |
| Loyal hearts to cheer | C |
| Every grace his youth adorning | B |
| Glorious as the star of morning | B |
| Or the planet of the year | C |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| Albion by the nymph attended | D |
| Was to Neptune recommended | D |
| Peace and plenty spread the sails | E |
| Venus in her shell before him | F |
| From the sands in safety bore him | F |
| And supplied Etesian gales | E |
| Archon on the shore commanding | B |
| Lowly met him at his landing | B |
| Crowds of people swarm'd around | G |
| Welcome rang like peals of thunder | H |
| Welcome rent the skies asunder | H |
| Welcome heaven and earth resound | G |
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| III | A |
| - | |
| Infernal offspring of the Night | I |
| Debarr'd of heaven your native right | I |
| And from the glorious fields of light | I |
| Condemn'd in shades to drag the chain | J |
| And fill with groans the gloomy plain | J |
| Since pleasures here are none below | K |
| Be ill our good our joy be woe | K |
| Our work t' embroil the worlds above | L |
| Disturb their union disunite their love | L |
| And blast the beauteous frame of our victorious foe | K |
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| IV | K |
| - | |
| See the god of seas attends thee | M |
| Nymphs divine a beauteous train | J |
| All the calmer gales befriend thee | M |
| In thy passage o'er the main | J |
| Every maid her locks is binding | B |
| Every Triton's horn is winding | B |
| Welcome to the watery plain | J |
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| V | M |
| - | |
| Albion loved of gods and men | N |
| Prince of Peace too mildly reigning | B |
| Cease thy sorrow and complaining | B |
| Thou shalt be restored again | N |
| Albion loved of gods and men | N |
| - | |
| Still thou art the care of heaven | O |
| In thy youth to exile driven | O |
| Heaven thy ruin then prevented | P |
| Till the guilty land repented | P |
| In thy age when none could aid thee | M |
| Foes conspired and friends betray'd thee | M |
| To the brink of danger driven | O |
| Still thou art the care of heaven | O |
John Dryden
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