Seeing The Duke Of Ormond's Picture, At Sir Godfrey Kneller's Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFFFGHCCIIJJKK LLFFMM| Out from the injured canvas Kneller strike | A |
| These lines too faint the picture is not like | A |
| Exalt thy thought and try thy toil again | B |
| Dreadful in arms on Landen's glorious plain | C |
| Place Ormond's Duke impendent in the air | D |
| Let his keen sabre comet like appear | E |
| Where'er it points denouncing death below | F |
| Draw routed squadrons and the numerous foe | F |
| Falling beneath or flying from his blow | F |
| Till weak with wounds and cover'd o'er with blood | G |
| Which from the patriot's breast in torrents flow'd | H |
| He faints he steed no longer hears the rein | C |
| But stumbles o'er the heap his hand had slain | C |
| And now exhausted bleeding pale he lies | I |
| Lovely sad object in his half closed eyes | I |
| Stern Vengeance yet and hostile Terror stand | J |
| His front yet threatens and his frowns command | J |
| The Gallic chiefs their troops around him call | K |
| Fear to approach him though they see him fall | K |
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| O Kneller could thy shades and lights express | L |
| The perfect hero in that glorious dress | L |
| Ages to come might Ormond's picture know | F |
| And palms for thee beneath his laurels grow | F |
| In spite of time thy work might ever thine | M |
| Nor Homer's colours last so long as thine | M |
Matthew Prior
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