Poem: Louis Napoleon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDCE FGGF HIHIEagle of Austerlitz where were thy wings | A |
When far away upon a barbarous strand | B |
In fight unequal by an obscure hand | B |
Fell the last scion of thy brood of Kings | A |
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Poor boy thou shalt not flaunt thy cloak of red | C |
Or ride in state through Paris in the van | D |
Of thy returning legions but instead | C |
Thy mother France free and republican | E |
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Shall on thy dead and crownless forehead place | F |
The better laurels of a soldier's crown | G |
That not dishonoured should thy soul go down | G |
To tell the mighty Sire of thy race | F |
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That France hath kissed the mouth of Liberty | H |
And found it sweeter than his honied bees | I |
And that the giant wave Democracy | H |
Breaks on the shores where Kings lay couched at ease | I |
Oscar Fingal O'flahertie Wills Wilde
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