Sonnet: Political Greatness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABABCDEDEFDF| Nor 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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