Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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To Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCDEEFGHGGII JKJKLKLKMNNMABOKOPKP P QRQQR SSTTS

Death where is thy victoryA
To triumph whilst I dieB
To triumph whilst thine ebon wingC
Enfolds my shuddering soulD
O Death where is thy stingC
Not when the tides of murder rollD
When nations groan that kings may bask in blissE
Death canst thou boast a victory such as thisE
When in his hour of pomp and powerF
His blow the mightiest murderer gaveG
Mid Nature s cries the sacrificeH
Of millions to glut the graveG
When sunk the Tyrant Desolation s slaveG
Or Freedom s life blood streamed upon thy shrineI
Stern Tyrant couldst thou boast a victory such as mineI
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To know in dissolution s voidJ
That mortals baubles sunk decayK
That everything but Love destroyedJ
Must perish with its kindred clayK
Perish Ambition s crownL
Perish her sceptred swayK
From Death s pale front fades Pride s fastidious frownL
In Death s damp vault the lurid fires decayK
That Envy lights at heaven born Virtue s beamM
That all the cares subsideN
Which lurk beneath the tideN
Of life s unquiet streamM
Yes this is victoryA
And on yon rock whose dark form glooms the skyB
To stretch these pale limbs when the soul is fledO
To baffle the lean passions of their preyK
To sleep within the palace of the deadO
Oh not the King around whose dazzling throneP
His countless courtiers mock the words they sayK
Triumphs amid the bud of glory blownP
As I in this cold bed and faint expiring groanP
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Tremble ye proud whose grandeur mocks the woeQ
Which props the column of unnatural stateR
You the plainings faint and lowQ
From Misery s tortured soul that flowQ
Shall usher to your fateR
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Tremble ye conquerors at whose fell commandS
The war fiend riots o er a peaceful landS
You Desolation s gory throngT
Shall bear from Victory alongT
To that mysterious strandS

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