Sonnet: Political Greatness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABABCDEDEFDFNor happiness nor majesty nor fame | A |
Nor peace nor strength nor skill in arms or arts | B |
Shepherd those herds whom tyranny makes tame | A |
Verse echoes not one beating of their hearts | B |
History is but the shadow of their shame | A |
Art veils her glass or from the pageant starts | B |
As to oblivion their blind millions fleet | C |
Staining that Heaven with obscene imagery | D |
Of their own likeness What are numbers knit | E |
By force or custom Man who man would be | D |
Must rule the empire of himself in it | E |
Must be supreme establishing his throne | F |
On vanquished will quelling the anarchy | D |
Of hopes and fears being himself alone | F |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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