The Dream Of Pio Nono Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBFBBGHBIJKLBMNO NBPQRSBNTNUBNVUBBBWN XBYGBZBUA2B2C2BNNBB2 BD2E2BPF2G2YUD2PH2| IT chanced that while the pious troops of France | A |
| Fought in the crusade Pio Nono preached | B |
| What time the holy Bourbons stayed his hands | C |
| The Hur and Aaron meet for such a Moses | D |
| Stretched forth from Naples towards rebellious Rome | E |
| To bless the ministry of Oudinot | B |
| And sanctify his iron homilies | F |
| And sharp persuasions of the bayonet | B |
| That the great pontiff fell asleep and dreamed | B |
| He stood by Lake Tiberias in the sun | G |
| Of the bright Orient and beheld the lame | H |
| The sick and blind kneel at the Master's feet | B |
| And rise up whole And sweetly over all | I |
| Dropping the ladder of their hymn of praise | J |
| From heaven to earth in silver rounds of song | K |
| He heard the blessed angels sing of peace | L |
| Good will to man and glory to the Lord | B |
| Then one with feet unshod and leathern face | M |
| Hardened and darkened by fierce summer suns | N |
| And hot winds of the desert closer drew | O |
| His fisher's haick and girded up his loins | N |
| And spake as one who had authority | B |
| 'Come thou with me ' | P |
| Lakeside and eastern sky | Q |
| And the sweet song of angels passed away | R |
| And with a dream's alacrity of change | S |
| The priest and the swart fisher by his side | B |
| Beheld the Eternal City lift its domes | N |
| And solemn fanes and monumental pomp | T |
| Above the waste Campagna On the hills | N |
| The blaze of burning villas rose and fell | U |
| And momently the mortar's iron throat | B |
| Roared from the trenches and within the walls | N |
| Sharp crash of shells low groans of human pain | V |
| Shout drum beat and the clanging larum bell | U |
| And tramp of hosts sent up a mingled sound | B |
| Half wail and half defiance As they passed | B |
| The gate of San Pancrazio human blood | B |
| Flowed ankle high about them and dead men | W |
| Choked the long street with gashed and gory piles | N |
| A ghastly barricade of mangled flesh | X |
| From which at times quivered a living hand | B |
| And white lips moved and moaned A father tore | Y |
| His gray hairs by the body of his son | G |
| In frenzy and his fair young daughter wept | B |
| On his old bosom Suddenly a flash | Z |
| Clove the thick sulphurous air and man and maid | B |
| Sank crushed and mangled by the shattering shell | U |
| Then spake the Galilean 'Thou hast seen | A2 |
| The blessed Master and His works of love | B2 |
| Look now on thine Hear'st thou the angels sing | C2 |
| Above this open hell Thou God's high priest | B |
| Thou the Vicegerent of the Prince of Peace | N |
| Thou the successor of His chosen ones | N |
| I Peter fisherman of Galilee | B |
| In the dear Master's name and for the love | B2 |
| Of His true Church proclaim thee Antichrist | B |
| Alien and separate from His holy faith | D2 |
| Wide as the difference between death and life | E2 |
| The hate of man and the great love of God | B |
| Hence and repent ' | P |
| Thereat the pontiff woke | F2 |
| Trembling and muttering o'er his fearful dream | G2 |
| 'What means he ' cried the Bourbon 'Nothing more | Y |
| Than that your majesty hath all too well | U |
| Catered for your poor guests and that in sooth | D2 |
| The Holy Father's supper troubleth him ' | P |
| Said Cardinal Antonelli with a smile | H2 |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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