To Her Royal Highness The Duchess,[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCDDEEBFGGHHIIJDKKL LJJJGGJJMMJJNOPPQQHH RRJDSSTTUULLVVWWXX| On The Memorable Victory Gained By The Duke Over The Hollanders June And On Her Journey Afterwards Into The North | A |
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| Madam | B |
| When for our sakes your hero you resign'd | C |
| To swelling seas and every faithless wind | C |
| When you released his courage and set free | D |
| A valour fatal to the enemy | D |
| You lodged your country's cares within your breast | E |
| The mansion where soft love should only rest | E |
| And ere our foes abroad were overcome | B |
| The noblest conquest you had gain'd at home | F |
| Ah what concerns did both your souls divide | G |
| Your honour gave us what your love denied | G |
| And 'twas for him much easier to subdue | H |
| Those foes he fought with than to part from you | H |
| That glorious day which two such navies saw | I |
| As each unmatch'd might to the world give law | I |
| Neptune yet doubtful whom he should obey | J |
| Held to them both the trident of the sea | D |
| The winds were hush'd the waves in ranks were cast | K |
| As awfully as when God's people pass'd | K |
| Those yet uncertain on whose sails to blow | L |
| These where the wealth of nations ought to flow | L |
| Then with the duke your highness ruled the day | J |
| While all the brave did his command obey | J |
| The fair and pious under you did pray | J |
| How powerful are chaste vows the wind and tide | G |
| You bribed to combat on the English side | G |
| Thus to your much loved lord you did convey | J |
| An unknown succour sent the nearest way | J |
| New vigour to his wearied arms you brought | M |
| So Moses was upheld while Israel fought | M |
| While from afar we heard the cannon play | J |
| Like distant thunder on a shiny day | J |
| For absent friends we were ashamed to fear | N |
| When we consider'd what you ventured there | O |
| Ships men and arms our country might restore | P |
| But such a leader could supply no more | P |
| With generous thoughts of conquest he did burn | Q |
| Yet fought not more to vanquish than return | Q |
| Fortune and victory he did pursue | H |
| To bring them as his slaves to wait on you | H |
| Thus beauty ravish'd the rewards of fame | R |
| And the fair triumph'd when the brave o'ercame | R |
| Then as you meant to spread another way | J |
| By land your conquests far as his by sea | D |
| Leaving our southern clime you march'd along | S |
| The stubborn North ten thousand Cupids strong | S |
| Like commons the nobility resort | T |
| In crowding heaps to fill your moving court | T |
| To welcome your approach the vulgar run | U |
| Like some new envoy from the distant sun | U |
| And country beauties by their lovers go | L |
| Blessing themselves and wondering at the show | L |
| So when the new born Phoenix first is seen | V |
| Her feather'd subjects all adore their queen | V |
| And while she makes her progress through the east | W |
| From every grove her numerous train's increased | W |
| Each poet of the air her glory sings | X |
| And round him the pleased audience clap their wings | X |
John Dryden
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