To The Portrait Of Napoleon, As First Consul Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCD EFEG HIHI CJCJ KLKL EMEM NONO PQPE CRCR| Painted by Andrea Appiani in and at present | A |
| in the Villa Melzi Bellagio | B |
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| Brilliant as Lucifer Son of the Morning | C |
| Rises this reincarnation of Mars | D |
| Youth at its apogee precedent scorning | C |
| Genius ascending its path toward the stars | D |
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| Never was Bonaparte's Consular glory | E |
| Treated by Art so superbly as here | F |
| Never a phase of his marvellous story | E |
| Handled more deftly or rendered more clear | G |
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| Italy's effigy lies 'neath his fingers | H |
| Lombardy rests in the fold of his hand | I |
| While on his lips an expression still lingers | H |
| Stamped by a character born to command | I |
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| Hero of history what art thou scheming | C |
| Spanning thus easily so much of Earth | J |
| Holding tenaciously too in thy dreaming | C |
| Wave beaten Corsica isle of thy birth | J |
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| All that thou dreamest of paramount power | K |
| Fate shall concede to thee chieftain sublime | L |
| Yet shall it prove but the joy of an hour | K |
| Fortune avenges her favors with time | L |
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| Aye even now although millions adore thee | E |
| Hailing as godlike thy dominant name | M |
| Nemesis stands in the shadow before thee | E |
| Waiting with Waterloo exile and shame | M |
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| Waiting is also that island of anguish | N |
| Destined to crush thy proud spirit at last | O |
| Doomed amid pigmy tormentors to languish | N |
| Facing forever its measureless past | O |
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| Yet when at length on that rock in mid ocean | P |
| Merciful Death shall have broken thy chain | Q |
| Millions will hail thee again with devotion | P |
| Building thy tomb by the banks of the Seine | E |
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| Face of Napoleon nobly recalling | C |
| Days of the mythical heroes of yore | R |
| Oft wilt thou haunt me when shadows are falling | C |
| Beautiful gem of the Larian shore | R |
John L. Stoddard
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