To A Caged Lion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EFGFHH IJKJLL MNONPP| Poor conquered monarch though that haughty glance | A |
| Still speaks thy courage unsubdued by time | B |
| And in the grandeur of thy sullen tread | C |
| Lives the proud spirit of thy burning clime | B |
| Fettered by things that shudder at thy roar | D |
| Torn from thy pathless wilds to pace this narrow floor | D |
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| Thou wast the victor and all nature shrunk | E |
| Before the thunders of thine awful wrath | F |
| The steel armed hunter viewed thee from afar | G |
| Fearless and trackless in thy lonely path | F |
| The famished tiger closed his flaming eye | H |
| And crouched and panted as thy step went by | H |
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| Thou art the vanquished and insulting man | I |
| Bars thy broad bosom as a sparrow's wing | J |
| His nerveless arms thine iron sinews bind | K |
| And lead in chains the desert's fallen king | J |
| Are these the beings that have dared to twine | L |
| Their feeble threads around those limbs of thine | L |
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| So must it be the weaker wiser race | M |
| That wields the tempest and that rides the sea | N |
| Even in the stillness of thy solitude | O |
| Must teach the lesson of its power to thee | N |
| And thou the terror of the trembling wild | P |
| Must bow thy savage strength the mockery of a child | P |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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