The Prayer Of The Romans Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GEHEEIEI JEKEKKLK KKMKKNKN KOEOPQEQ| Not done but near its ending | A |
| Is the work that our eyes desired | B |
| Not yet fulfilled but near the goal | C |
| Is the hope that our worn hearts fired | B |
| And on the Alban Mountains | D |
| Where the blushes of dawn increase | E |
| We see the flash of the beautiful feet | F |
| Of Freedom and of Peace | E |
| - | |
| How long were our fond dreams baffled | G |
| Novara's sad mischance | E |
| The Kaiser's sword and fetter lock | H |
| And the traitor stab of France | E |
| Till at last came glorious Venice | E |
| In storm and tempest home | I |
| And now God maddens the greedy kings | E |
| And gives to her people Rome | I |
| - | |
| Lame Lion of Caprera | J |
| Red shirts of the lost campaigns | E |
| Not idly shed was the costly blood | K |
| You poured from generous veins | E |
| For the shame of Aspromonte | K |
| And the stain of Mentana's sod | K |
| But forged the curse of kings that sprang | L |
| From your breaking hearts to God | K |
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| We lift our souls to thee O Lord | K |
| Of Liberty and of Light | K |
| Let not earth's kings pollute the work | M |
| That was done in their despite | K |
| Let not thy light be darkened | K |
| In the shade of a sordid crown | N |
| Nor pampered swine devour the fruit | K |
| Thou shook'st with an earthquake down | N |
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| Let the People come to their birthright | K |
| And crosier and crown pass away | O |
| Like phantasms that flit o'er the marshes | E |
| At the glance of the clean white day | O |
| And then from the lava of Aetna | P |
| To the ice of the Alps let there be | Q |
| One freedom one faith without fetters | E |
| One republic in Italy free | Q |
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