An Ode, Written October, 1819, Before The Spaniards Had Recovered Their Liberty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCC DEDEFGG HIHIJKJ LDLDMMM NONOLLL| Arise arise arise | A |
| There is blood on the earth that denies ye bread | B |
| Be your wounds like eyes | A |
| To weep for the dead the dead the dead | B |
| What other grief were it just to pay | C |
| Your sons your wives your brethren were they | C |
| Who said they were slain on the battle day | C |
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| Awaken awaken awaken | D |
| The slave and the tyrant are twin born foes | E |
| Be the cold chains shaken | D |
| To the dust where your kindred repose repose | E |
| Their bones in the grave will start and move | F |
| When they hear the voices of those they love | G |
| Most loud in the holy combat above | G |
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| Wave wave high the banner | H |
| When Freedom is riding to conquest by | I |
| Though the slaves that fan her | H |
| Be Famine and Toil giving sigh for sigh | I |
| And ye who attend her imperial car | J |
| Lift not your hands in the banded war | K |
| But in her defence whose children ye are | J |
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| Glory glory glory | L |
| To those who have greatly suffered and done | D |
| Never name in story | L |
| Was greater than that which ye shall have won | D |
| Conquerors have conquered their foes alone | M |
| Whose revenge pride and power they have overthrown | M |
| Ride ye more victorious over your own | M |
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| Bind bind every brow | N |
| With crownals of violet ivy and pine | O |
| Hide the blood stains now | N |
| With hues which sweet Nature has made divine | O |
| Green strength azure hope and eternity | L |
| But let not the pansy among them be | L |
| Ye were injured and that means memory | L |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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