Vignettes 20 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEC FGHHII JJKLMMNNOOPPQR SSTTLLHHUUJJCC VVWWQQXXVV| On reading in Savary's Travels the death of Ali Bey who | A |
| it is there represented in the midst of enlightened and | B |
| benevolent efforts to benefit his country was repeatedly | C |
| betrayed and at length taken captive by his brother in law | D |
| whom he had advanced and loved and who till the very last | E |
| he could not believe to be his enemy | C |
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| O generous Ali while thy fate inspires | F |
| Indignant pity with a patriot's fires | G |
| I mourn for Egypt and with equal zeal | H |
| For her for thee and ruin'd science feel | H |
| Admire the confidence my heart deplores | I |
| And blame the weakness it almost adores | I |
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| Pride of thy race before my mental eyes | J |
| I see thee like another Alfred rise | J |
| See honour splendent on thy ample brow | K |
| While Thought and Genius fill the orbs below | L |
| Those beaming orbs where lofty sweetness shone | M |
| And where the soul sate smiling on her throne | M |
| Depriv'd too soon of that benignant ray | N |
| Which impious Dahab shudder'd to survey | N |
| Pale bleeding conquer'd dying and forlorn | O |
| I see thee view the wretch with silent scorn | O |
| See thy cheek flush at the false tears he shed | P |
| And proudly turn away the languid head | P |
| With mingled anger sorrow and disdain | Q |
| That he should dare to tempt thy love again | R |
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| Oh yet within the tent I see thee lie | S |
| The victor like a coward crouching by | S |
| O'erawed rebuked and humbled in the hour | T |
| The plenitude of his success and power | T |
| A pain the guilty never make us know | L |
| In all the miseries they cause below | L |
| A pain which they in every triumph feel | H |
| A humbling sense no glory yet could heal | H |
| The want of conscious worth the poignant thought | U |
| That inwardly sets all pretence at naught | U |
| That curbs all self applause tears all disguise | J |
| When the subdued the ruin'd can despise | J |
| And in the arms of death can yet be free | C |
| To say Let me be any thing but thee | C |
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| Ambition while thy zeal the good inflame | V |
| And make a noble nature sigh for fame | V |
| We deem thee of a more than royal line | W |
| For self devotion tendeth to divine | W |
| But when like Dahab's demon selfish vain | Q |
| It loosens Gratitude's mysterious chain | Q |
| When broken Faith aloud but vainly calls | X |
| When the warm friend the king the brother falls | X |
| Instead of honours and a conqueror's fame | V |
| Hatred shall haunt and curses brand thy name | V |
Matilda Betham
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