Fragments Supposed To Be Parts Of Otho Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDCDD AEF AGCGCDCI | A |
Those whom nor power nor lying faith nor toil | B |
Nor custom queen of many slaves makes blind | C |
Have ever grieved that man should be the spoil | B |
Of his own weakness and with earnest mind | C |
Fed hopes of its redemption these recur | D |
Chastened by deathful victory now and find | C |
Foundations in this foulest age and stir | D |
Me whom they cheer to be their minister | D |
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II | A |
Dark is the realm of grief but human things | E |
Those may not know who cannot weep for them | F |
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III | A |
Once more descend | G |
The shadows of my soul upon mankind | C |
For to those hearts with which they never blend | G |
Thoughts are but shadows which the flashing mind | C |
From the swift clouds which track its flight of fire | D |
Casts on the gloomy world it leaves behind | C |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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