Ode To King William Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEFE BGHG IJKJ LMLN OPOQ RSRS TUVU WXWX YZA2Z B2C2B2C2 D2E2D2E2| ON HIS SUCCESSES IN IRELAND | A |
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| To purchase kingdoms and to buy renown | B |
| Are arts peculiar to dissembling France | C |
| You mighty monarch nobler actions crown | B |
| And solid virtue does your name advance | C |
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| Your matchless courage with your prudence joins | D |
| The glorious structure of your fame to raise | E |
| With its own light your dazzling glory shines | F |
| And into adoration turns our praise | E |
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| Had you by dull succession gain'd your crown | B |
| Cowards are monarchs by that title made | G |
| Part of your merit Chance would call her own | H |
| And half your virtues had been lost in shade | G |
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| But now your worth its just reward shall have | I |
| What trophies and what triumphs are your due | J |
| Who could so well a dying nation save | K |
| At once deserve a crown and gain it too | J |
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| You saw how near we were to ruin brought | L |
| You saw th'impetuous torrent rolling on | M |
| And timely on the coming danger thought | L |
| Which we could neither obviate nor shun | N |
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| Britannia stripp'd of her sole guard the laws | O |
| Ready to fall Rome's bloody sacrifice | P |
| You straight stepp'd in and from the monster's jaws | O |
| Did bravely snatch the lovely helpless prize | Q |
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| Nor this is all as glorious is the care | R |
| To preserve conquests as at first to gain | S |
| In this your virtue claims a double share | R |
| Which what it bravely won does well maintain | S |
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| Your arm has now your rightful title show'd | T |
| An arm on which all Europe's hopes depend | U |
| To which they look as to some guardian God | V |
| That must their doubtful liberty defend | U |
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| Amazed thy action at the Boyne we see | W |
| When Schomberg started at the vast design | X |
| The boundless glory all redounds to thee | W |
| The impulse the fight th'event were wholly thine | X |
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| The brave attempt does all our foes disarm | Y |
| You need but now give orders and command | Z |
| Your name shall the remaining work perform | A2 |
| And spare the labour of your conquering hand | Z |
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| France does in vain her feeble arts apply | B2 |
| To interrupt the fortune of your course | C2 |
| Your influence does the vain attacks defy | B2 |
| Of secret malice or of open force | C2 |
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| Boldly we hence the brave commencement date | D2 |
| Of glorious deeds that must all tongues employ | E2 |
| William's the pledge and earnest given by fate | D2 |
| Of England's glory and her lasting joy | E2 |
Jonathan Swift
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