The Curse Of Hungary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DEED FGGF HIIH JKKJ GLLG MNNO KPPK QRRQ SPPS GTTGSaloman looked from his donjon bars | A |
Where the Danube clamors through sedge and sand | B |
And he cursed with a curse his revolting land | B |
With a king's deep curse of treason and wars | C |
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He said May this false land know no truth | D |
May the good hearts die and the bad ones flourish | E |
And a greed of glory but live to nourish | E |
Envy and hate in its restless youth | D |
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In the barren soil may the ploughshare rust | F |
While the sword grows bright with its fatal labor | G |
And blackens between each man and neighbor | G |
The perilous cloud of a vague distrust | F |
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Be the noble idle the peasant in thrall | H |
And each to the other as unknown things | I |
That with links of hatred and pride the kings | I |
May forge firm fetters through each for all | H |
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May a king wrong them as they wronged their king | J |
May he wring their hearts as they wrung mine | K |
Till they pour their blood for his revels like wine | K |
And to women and monks their birthright fling | J |
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The mad king died but the rushing river | G |
Still brawls by the spot where his donjon stands | L |
And its swift waves sigh to the conscious sands | L |
That the curse of King Saloman works forever | G |
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For flowing by Pressbourg they heard the cheers | M |
Ring out from the leal and cheated hearts | N |
That were caught and chained by Theresa's arts | N |
A man's cool head and a girl's hot tears | O |
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And a star scarce risen they saw decline | K |
Where Orsova's hills looked coldly down | P |
As Kossuth buried the Iron Crown | P |
And fled in the dark to the Turkish line | K |
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And latest they saw in the summer glare | Q |
The Magyar nobles in pomp arrayed | R |
To shout as they saw with his unfleshed blade | R |
A Hapsburg beating the harmless air | Q |
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But ever the same sad play they saw | S |
The same weak worship of sword and crown | P |
The noble crushing the humble down | P |
And moulding Wrong to a monstrous Law | S |
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The donjon stands by the turbid river | G |
But Time is crumbling its battered towers | T |
And the slow light withers a despot's powers | T |
And a mad king's curse is not forever | G |
John Hay
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